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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Praised by the late Knute Rockne as the "ideal quarterback," Stuhldreher became head football coach at Villanova after graduation in 1925, turned out hard-playing, fast-moving teams which in eleven years won 66 games, lost 25, tied nine. Two of the teams which his new charges have to face next autumn are Notre Dame, piloted by Elmer Layden, another of the Four Horsemen, and Purdue, coached by Noble Kizer, who played guard on that same famed eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseman to Wisconsin | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Ours is the ideal candidate with the ideal name (Beerwith for mayor). He will give satisfaction. He has satisfied himself for years. Can the Proselyte of Prohibition say as much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Kittredge Dubs Democratic Party as "Turpentine" in Revived "Harvard Anarchist" | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

...role of gentleman amidst inferiors a legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately for herself, Adria fell in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred & Profane | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...person is to blame for this singularly unfortunate situation. Rather, it seems to represent an uncertainty of policy, policy which originated some time ago, as to just what this department is trying to accomplish. The ideal solution is of course the perfect combination of good teacher and good research man. It is a little hard on the keen and hard-working student to have to hold the test-tube in which the Administration is trying to shake up this perfect solution. The experiment must produce results soon, or the complete disintegration of this field, which at present is no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND BADLY TEACH | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan premiere last week coincided with the death of Marilyn Miller, onetime Ziegfeld star, comes under the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer routine. Its result is more surprising. At once biography and able extravaganza, The Great Ziegfeld approximates, more closely than any show he ever produced himself, the Ziegfeldian ideal. Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Ber lin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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