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...kicked in the shins by boys," recalls Mrs. Eileen Archibold, a girlhood friend, "one of them gave Mamie a snakeskin. It was a real honor." Mamie made regular Saturday streetcar pilgrimages to the Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch's grape juice, and allowed them to play at a pool table in a basement game room; as she grew older...
Exams came uncomfortably close. Freshmen went off to hear Bootch comic Sir Harry Lauder and then scuttled off for a last-minute cram. Meanwhile one dean told the Harvard Dames that "Girls, Clubs, tutorial schools and the 24-hour memory were demoralizing the college...
Exams were here again, and Scotch comic Harry Lauder came to cheer up the University. But an ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted, lent a sobering note to the proceedings, as the men of '26 sat down to spend the next two weeks writing in blue books. Widow Nolan's tutoring school did a flourishing business, and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes into the College past the watchful eyes of the deans. But the ordeal soon passed, and the Class of '26 could breath easily...
Nowadays more than 100,000 copies of test booklets go to more than 2,000 schools and colleges three times a year. Many instructors award prizes provided by TIME to the students who score, highest in each class. Some winners over the years: Gene Lauder Tunney (the ex-champ's son), John de Cuevas (John D. Rockefeller's great-grandson), Margaret Truman (see cover...
Died. Sir Harry Lauder, 79, stubby, bandy-legged Scottish comic whose pawky burr and lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race...