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...sedatives") and gives scientific reasons for tolerating an occasional cocktail or schooner of beer. Besides Haggard, the school will have 20 lecturers. Students will include clergymen, probation officers, school administrators, teachers, welfare workers. Typical accepted student is Michigan's Liquor Control Commission's research director, Lawrence McCracken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Liquor et Veritas | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: History in Doggerel | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Pennsylvania swept the singles as Tesman defeated Jenkins, 6-8, 6-1, 9-7; McCracken won 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 against Hyde; Schafer downed Orme Wilson, 6-2, 6-4; Olson took Cohn by 6-1, 6-4; Lin Burton lost to Penn's Peele by 6-3, 7-5; and Kissel was defeated by Garret, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8. The Crimson got its only points in the doubles, when Hyde and Dick Sorlien beat Tesman and Olson; 8-6, 6-3, while Jenkins and Ezell were defeating Peele and Lefkowith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton, Penn Gain Wins Over Racquetmen | 4/21/1942 | See Source »

...accepted for Air Corps training, however, and seven others were given a physical examination. Captain W. J. McCracken, president of the examining board told the aspirants that they might be trained together in groups of twenty, provided they passed their physicals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Gears Its Facilities To Support U. S. War Effort | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

Food relief advocates will have a chance to express themselves tonight when track coach Jaakko Mikkola will preside over an open forum in the Littauer Auditorium. Speakers will be Henry N. McCracken, president of Vassar, and Sonia Tomara, columnist for the New York Herald Tribune

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee on Food Relief Sponsors Radio Discussion | 3/5/1941 | See Source »

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