Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displayed exemplary self-control and good sportsmanship. No alibis or excuses were to be heard from his lips; instead, he excused himself quietly from a gathering of reporters and officials and went over to congratulate the captain of the opposing team. For a man whose entire life is centered on his team, Hal Ulen took the defeat with an admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community may well be proud of. His thoughts in defeat did not consist of balancing the half-dozen if's of the meet, rather did he praise the men on his team who fought...
...gazed at the flowers, Vag began to attach tremendous importance to them, perhaps undue importance. Those tender petals had been the life work of Blaschka pere et fils. They had been publicized by Harvard and sanctified by royalty. And where were they? In a fire-trap if Vag had ever seen...
...painting passed to his nephew Charles, and when Charles died in 1928, to son Marvin III. Recently Marvin III, 26, took it to the Detroit Institute of Arts to arrange for its exhibition. Director Wilhelm Valentiner, dazzled by the reality of Artist Haeberle's currency, particularly a life-size 1886 five-dollar bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make it unlawful to design, engrave, print...
Latest such old wife's tale is Madeleine Boyd's novel, Life Makes Advances (Little, Brown, $2.75), by the separated wife (now a Manhattan literary agent) of an elegant Manhattan ex-critic. While husband's and wife's names are fictitious, Author Boyd confesses the characters are real...
...braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process...