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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's chapter of NSA will supply information on a nation-wide scale to all other college chapters attempting to arrange scholarships for DP students, delegation chairman Alfred M. Goodloe Jr. '50 announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard NSA Gets Big Role In DP Project | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...students sometimes tease Maldarelli with his consuming interest in the female figure. "I used to do abstractions," he says, "but you can put that down to research. Right now I'm working on a panel with a man in it, but I'm miserable with it. Now just the other day a student brought me a figure she said was supposed to represent a soul fettered by society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Woman on a Pedestal | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Like one of his cabarets, Billy Rose's first book has a dish for almost every taste. Smeared over most of them is a thick paste of sentimental egotism; the reader can no more escape Billy Rose ("I'm a ham-boned, hickory-smoked, and sugar-cured") than he could escape himself if he were locked up in a padded cell. One chapter, "Holm, Sweet Holm," tells the reader how wonderful wife Eleanor is, how she makes him behave like a gentleman, stops him from buying candied apples on sticks (because they have "nine million calories"), and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella don't mean I'm all washed up azza jink. I wuz outclassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...With a Message. One of Rose's best yarns is about Jimmy Durante on a fishing trip. Durante was awakened at 3 a.m. to drive out to the ocean. "On the way to the garage, I noticed he was smacking every tree he passed. 'When I'm awake,' Schnozzola explained, 'no boid sleeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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