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...same team will start this game as was victorious over M.I.T. on Wednesday but several men will face off at new positions. Tom Bridge moves up from defense to the midfield and Sam Mantel shifts from midfield to attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Lacrosse Team Plays | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...decade ago the Faculty Club bequeathed Warren House to English A and moved into an attractive red-brick building next door. The mothbitten stuffed caribou head, which has trailed the professors since they first met in the chapel of University Hall, was installed over the mantel. And the traditional stodginess (which once caused a History 1 section man to propose "Slow, slow, inconceivably slow" as the club's motto) was also transferred to the new quarters. Younger instructors, therefore, still found the Square cafeterias more reasonable and the undergraduate Houses more congenial. Few of them sought membership; and the large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY CLUBMEN | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

Cinemactor Thomas Mitchell, who last month won an Oscar for playing the best supporting role (in Stagecoach) of 1939, makes good pictures. He buys still better ones. The library of his Riviera (near Hollywood) home has a special niche over the mantel. It is the shrine where Tom Mitchell hangs his latest purchases. In it have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Refugee Rembrandt | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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