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Fiend Crowe is 35, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, slim, weighs 140 Ibs. His hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch-Scamps | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...Story: In recent months one customer out of every five who has bought a Corona Portable typewriter (L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.) has bought a colored Corona Portable.*He purchases either a scarlet, a maroon, a green, a blue, a cream & gold, or a lavender & gold. Red is men's choice. Ivory and lavender are unpopular. Scarlet is popular. English & U. S. society women now have typewriters that do not suggest "business." Of the colored typewriters sold to date: 22 % are Scarlet 17 % are Maroon 18 % are Blue 13 % are Lavender 18 % are Green 12 % are Ivory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Office Equipment | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Students who have disputed the educational value of routine work they have been obliged to undertake in scientific courses should find a degree of consolation in this editorial,--Note from Colgate Maroon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...Langenschwalbach in Prussia, dainty town, famed for its iron and carbonic waters. Adolphus Busch had money, stupendous amounts to the minds of his castle servants and the country folk. His breweries at St. Louis, Vereinigten Staaten, were making. 1,599,459 barrels of good beer every year. His maroon-painted trucks with the spread-eagle trademark rumbled through every large U. S. city delivering cases of beer to barrooms, clubs and homes. He was wealthy. It was Kolossal, his casual hiring of entire hotels to ac commodate his guests for a season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kolossal | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...fears that the venerable A. A. Stagg has piled up year by year came home to him like a nightmare and his big Maroon team crumpled before eleven uneasy, shifting boys from Purdue. Score: Purdue, 6; Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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