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...mother's death, in 1920 he ambled onto the University of Arkansas, where he was immensely popular and immensely relaxed. "I guess all the boys were lazy," recalls a college chum, "but Ed was more than ordinary lazy." Arkansas' U.S. Senator James William Fulbright, then a lowerclassman and later president of the university, gives Ed full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady's man (despite his baggy-kneed appearance) and to join the boys in downing mountain dew. Finally the spinster head of the art department took alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Than Modern | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...teacher ("Well, that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic; but occasionally she must pay for her crimes by writing lines ("I must not smoke cigars during prayers. I must not smoke cigars during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poison-Ivied Walls | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...under the heavy load, according to ticket manager Frank O. Lunden, were unable to check bursar's cards and prevent this doubling up. Thus a Senior could get his tickets with a coupon book and then either give his bursar's card--guaranteeing Senior section tickets--to a lowerclassman or go through himself for another pair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket-Gouging Upsets New Stadium Seating Program | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

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