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...clambered up, peevishly took down his sign MAN BURIED ALIVE, Ten Cents a Look. In a vacant lot two blocks off, Mrs. Marion Weaver had also dug a grave, had put up a sign GIRL BURIED ALIVE, was taking away all of Oscar Atkins' customers. Two miles away, Lester Mclntyre, buried alive 21 days, clambered out when it started to rain. Said Lester McIntyre: "My grave leaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Birds | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...assistant to the national director, shrewd, brown-eyed Mrs. Increase Robinson. They are: no nudes, no dives, no social propaganda. Presumably tranquilized by these exclusions, by a living wage of $94 a month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone, to Edouard Chassaing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chicago Project | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Thus it was that when Iowa's votes were counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Iowa Microcosm | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Howell Jr., assistant in Biology. Anna C. Ames scholarship, Donovan S. Cornell, Duke University. Anna C. Ames tuition scholarship, Richard E. Schultes 1G. Austin fellowships to: John B. Christopher 3G, Malcolm E. Cross 1G, Herbert M. Irwin Jr., '37, University of Illinois, Andrew O. Jaszi, Oberlin College. John A. Lester Jr., Haverford. Mourice Matloff 2G. Herbert M. Spiro, University of California. Wallace A. Sprague, Oberlin College. Heinz Thannhauser, University of Cambridge, England. Robin M. Williams, North Carolina Agricultural Station. Benjamin M. Woodbridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 115 Men Get $63,350 Worth of '38-'39 Graduate Scholarships | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Lester H. Geist -- Miss Dorothy Abraham, Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Girls Coming to '41 Jubilee Tonight | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

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