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Winthrop 5, Lowell 2. James J. Thackera (W) defeated Lawrence V. Eaton (L), 6-3, 6-4; Herbert M. Agoos (W) defeated Bartram Kelley (L) 11-9, 5-7, 6-4; Adrian H. Malone (L) defeated Reginald H. Smith (W), 6-4, 6-3; Laird McK Ogle (L) defeated David MacDonald (W), 6-0, 7-5; Stillman P. Williams (W) defeated John R. Fetcher (L), 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Robert M. Saul (W) defeated William P. Rockwell (L), 13-11, 6-3, 6-4; Dunbar Holmes (W) defeated Mauric M. Stern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the House | 5/14/1935 | See Source »

...different. It is debatable just how much influence the Queen's nose had in enchanting the beloved Anthony but that noses have had no small part in the making of individual and national history will go without question. So must is this fact recognized today that Professor Donald Laird of Colgate University is making a special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals that not only is the nose a very determining factor in forming the character of the face, but that certain suffers are so sensitive in their make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOSE NOTES | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Shrewd Professor Donald Anderson Laird of Colgate University who, besides pursuing a scientific study of sleep, is consulting psychologist to the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors, recently asked the American Medical Association the following question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Head-First Habit | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Last week Professor Laird, whose sleep experiments have lately included producing anemia of the brain in some Colgate students, added the following to the A. M. A.'s explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Head-First Habit | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Adapted from incidents in Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart's autobiography. British Agent is lifted a notch above the level of run-of-the-mill spy pictures by the eloquent dialog by Laird Doyle, by expert performances by Howard and Francis. Good shot: a firing squad dealing with one of Locke's confreres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Operatic Opener | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

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