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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Game (British-born ancestors of U. S. football), through the white-canvas-shod, stocking-capped era of the '80s, down to the latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game (see cut) played in Hoboken on Thanksgiving Day 1879-memorable because 1) it resulted in a scoreless tie; 2) Yale's Captain Walter Camp flabbergasted the referee by asking permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Footballiana | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Members of the Harvard faculty assuming the title of full professor this fall include Professor Franklin E. Folis, in industrial management; Professor Henry A. Frost, in architecture; Professor George Sarton, in the history of science; Professor Albert Haertlein, in civil engineering; and Professors Andrew J. Casner, Paul A. Freund, Lon L. Fuller, and Milton Katz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEN DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS WILL BE VISITING LECTURERS | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...President Otto Kuusinen of last December's abortive Finnish People's Republic was elected a vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the U. S. S. R., and it was a good bet that he would be head of the 18th Soviet State before frost comes to Finland again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Justice in The Baltic | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...final chapter, Second March, Critic Brooks forecasts a second flowering of New England. He sees its seeds in the life and works of late great Poetess Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, and especially Robert Frost, whose function, thinks Critic Brooks, is "to mediate between New England and the mind of the rest of the nation." This chapter reads like an afterthought. Critic Brooks's task was finished before he wrote it. His task was to create an intellectual tradition that could feed the newly emerging U. S. cultural nationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Decline of the East | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...favorite device for eliminating an actress from a script is to reveal that the character she portrays has to go away to have a baby. Few weeks ago, Alice Frost, who plays the title role in CBS's Big Sister, managed to get away from it all when Scripteuse Marjorie Bartlett slammed Big Sister, over seven months gone, into an auto accident, shipped her off to "Glen Falls" to recuperate. In order to bring Big Sister back at the end of this month, Miss Bartlett is planning to have a drunken no-good set fire to a tenement, blister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Absent Ladies | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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