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Reports from Hanover yesterday indicated that the Indians' main effort of the day would occur shortly before game time. The exact nature of this coup is a well-kept secret, but it is understood that it will be engineered by members of The Jack O' Lantern, Dartmouth's humor magazine, with the financial backing of the Daily Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green Steals Silently into Town, But Trouble Expected This Morning | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...suggested that we apply for relief rations since we were not receiving pay. So I went to the one little village store and stood in line in the lantern-lighted back room, to state our case to the county relief agent. He, not a Catholic, though surprised was immediately interested and agreed that we were entitled to share in the ration issue. He made us a substantial allowance which was a lifesaver (though he did mark me down as drawing the allotment for myself "and family of nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...light of that dim lantern, they cut a poor figure indeed, who would now turn against the professional women who . . . kept their schools open in a time of need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Married. James McCauley Landis, 48, lantern-jawed onetime dean of the Harvard Law School, Roosevelt brain-truster (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), wartime head of the Office of Civilian Defense, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board until last December; and Dorothy Purdy Brown, 39, his ex-secretary; each for the second time; in Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Shot in glorious black and white, "Fort Apache" introduces John Agar as a brash young 2nd Lt with a lantern jaw and a gay twinkle in his blue, blue eyes. He provides the love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fort Apache | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

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