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In Boston, Walter L. Colburn won a pair of tickets to a boxing match by guessing that Harvard would beat Penn State, 46 to 13. It was his 235th contest prize. In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Earlier in the week the House, gagged by a rigid rule against amendments, passed (216-to-182) the $2,290,000,000 relief bill which Speaker Garner sponsored and President Hoover denounced as "pork."* It provided $100,000,000 as "mercy money" for direct relief, $1,000,000,000 in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: $2.45 per Head | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

For the High Altar in Phoenix Park the people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Dublin | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

Today, at two o'clock in Sever 11, the Vagabond will go to hear Hugh Miller talk about Bleak House with dramatic interpretations as embellishments. The book itself is one of the lesser known works of the author, but it has all the style, all the fine drama, all the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/20/1931 | See Source »

Long ago when States bickered, Illinoisians annoyed Iowans with a noisy derisive jingle:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Zoophiles Flayed | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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