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...summer Charles Albert Levine looped luridly about Europe. Such were his squabbles, such his eccentricities that jokes flourished around his name. Some termed him "publicity seeker;" some, "crank." Many wondered why he did not cease blinking brashly in the limelight and return home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Levine's New Model | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...excellence in such arts as calling pigs and eating pan cakes. What seems to be the most recent addition to the number of domestic accomplishments by which glory may be achieved is that of husband-calling. A worthy matron from somewhere west of Boston has recently reached the limelight through her ability to enunciate, with whatever inflection of firmness of fervency is appropriate, the word "Albert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ALBERT" | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

Music, literature and her family are the chief activities of Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Unlike her energetic husband, she seldom takes the limelight. But the Curtis Institute is evidence of far greater self-determination in Mrs. Bok than is suggested by the most intimate glimpse of her the public has yet had, in her husband's biography of her father, The Man from Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Philadelphia | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...five games scheduled for the-University nine during the past week were cancelled, and in the three engagements played the pitchers held the limelight and the whip hand. The three opponents of the Crimson were shut out in games of scant hitting on both sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tight Pitching and Fielding Raise Nine's Defensive Average--Batting Marks Fall--Pitchers Hurl Shutouts | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

Briefly his objections to the present scheme of things are: (1) Athletics are too intense for a few. (2) The majority lacks opportunity for athletic participation. (3) Varsity athletes are too much in the limelight. (4) Cut throat competition is forced on the coaches by the football public. (5) Students and faculty have too little control of athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ATHLETE SPEAKS | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

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