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...Very Last Minute actors dressed as British tourists have been nightly "shown around the world," have boasted at sight of each new marvel that something better of the same kind exists in the United Kingdom. On reaching Venice the guide exclaimed. "How fairylike is this Venetian night!" Whereat a Briton stoutly boasted, "The Prince of Wales is even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Very Last Minute | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Like most Caesars, Blount Marvel is divided into two parts. His better half, Leda, was born more sophisticated than Blount will ever be, but she loves him for his pink & white good humor, his boyish manliness. When he is sent to Washington as Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rubicon Double-Crossed | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Mason Hammond '25, instructor in History, and T. L. Harris, University adviser in religion, organizers of the crew, rowed 7 and 5, respectively. W. M. Marvel, proctor in Wigglesworth Hall, occupied the number 6 position in the shell, while R. H. Martin '34 rowed at number 4. The bow, two, and three seats were held by B. W. Hislop, a proctor in the Yard, R. I. W. Westgate, instructor in Greek and Latin, and J. F. C. Richards, instructor in Latin and Greek, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST FACULTY EIGHT TAKES INITIAL OUTING | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

...Ph.D. '29, instructor in French; J. H. Gleason '30, now at Balliol College, Oxford, of Newton; J. D. Gordon, Jr. '30, instructor in English; F. W. Hoeing, A.M. '30, assistant in History; K. N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government; A. B. Martin '30, 2L, of Geneva, Ohio; W. M. Marvel '30, 2L, of West Medford; R. H. Phelps '30, instructor in German; R. I. Westgate, Manitoba, '24, instructor in Greek and Latin; H. M. Smallwood Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, instructor in Chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCTORS AND ADVISERS FOR 1932-33 ANNOUNCED | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

...President Kent there is a great deal of the actor, also a genuineness sprung from the days when he was an engineer in Wyoming. Usually wearing a pepper & salt suit, he is full of tricks and stories. Salesmen under him marvel at his eloquence, his exciting vocabulary. Fox's bankers planned to watch him for several months before making him president but his air and accomplishments won them over in one-third of that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Film Revisions | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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