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Unexpected resistance met the Varsity lacrosse team Saturday afternoon when they lost 3 to 1 to the Stevens Institute ten from Hoboken, New Jersey. In less than a week the stickmen will face Dartmouth in one of the hardest games of the season, and the Stevens match did not find the Crimson up to mid-season form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Suffer Loss, 3-1, to Strong Stevens Ten; Yardlings Beaten | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Coach Skip Stahley has been highly pleased with his squad's practice sessions this week and expects his men to make a creditable showing this afternoon against the ten from Hoboken, New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Men Will Oppose Stevens Institute | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

This is the precocious first novel of a precocious bricklayer. Born 28 years ago in the slums of West Hoboken, N. J., handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up his father's bricklaying trowel, has supported his family ever since. In his off-hours he read everything in sight, especially Russian novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bricklayer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records in the last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie), then "Wrappin' It Up (Fletcher Henderson), "Topsie" (Basie), and now "Sent For You Yesterday and Here You Come Today" (Basie). This latest...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/10/1939 | See Source »

After the World War many a disillusioned U. S. citizen-soldier swore that the Government would have to drag him off the dock at Hoboken to make him go to another European war. In Britain much the same attitude developed. Widespread was the feeling that in another Anglo-French war against Germany and her allies, Britain should furnish a fleet, money and materials while France supplied the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dying v. Paying | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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