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Jolly-ups usually mean dancing and a non-alcoholic punch. The Wednesday night Cabot Hall jolly-up known officially as an "informal dance," started our the same way, but the foursome shown above added a new wrinkle bridge. They are, from left to right. Muriel Kaplan, Radcliffe '49, Jean Armstrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phlegmatic Foursome Flees Frolic, Makes Merry With Four Spade Bid | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

The dances used to be called "jolly-ups," a tag dropped without explanation this year.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crashers Squelched At Radcliffe Dances | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

Albert Fitzgerald is a jolly fat man who is president of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers and the stooge for the union's Communist-line bosses. Last week he gave a good demonstration of a now familiar dodge of proCommunists who are called on to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He's a Duck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Angus MacMillan is a jolly old man with a weather-lined face, a scraggly mustache, and a laugh that comes from his belly. He was born in Benbecula, in the Outer Hebrides, and only left the island once-to join the territorials during the Boer War. As a child, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Storyteller | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Mother Agatha, a jolly little lady with twinkling blue eyes, was sent west to settle among the Navahos. Under her, St. Michael's school so flourished that she was picked to run the first Catholic mission among the Winnebago Indians. Finally, in 1932, she went to Xavier.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Red & the Black | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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