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...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mudville Man | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mudville Man | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...International Relations, courses 18 and 30 on Contemporary International problems in Europe and Asia, were recommended for Sophomores or Juniors; Hopper, considered interesting but not profound, gives both. 14 on Nationalism in International Relations was also recommended, and Government 4 on International Law was called one of the best in college because of Professor Wild. It requires a good deal of work, such as writing reports, and should not be taken before Senior year. A new course in American Diplomatic History will be given this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

Aloof from the geographical battle, Representative Maury Maverick threw into the House hopper a brand-new bill to establish in the State Department an Institute of Friendly American Relations with part of its job the operation of a Government station for broadcasting to the U. S. and other American republics. The Maverick Bill specifies neither location nor cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pond Sings | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...author of numerous monographs on the Far East, Arnold was also highly praised by Professor Hopper as an outstanding speaker, and a large number of "vagabonds" are expected at the lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN ATTACHE TO CHINA TO DISCUSS FAR EAST TODAY | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

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