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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No pedagog herself, Miss Charlotte obtained the services of Miss Christine Weyman, an able, experienced Scotswoman who is still Foxcroft's academic headmistress. Miss Charlotte's role was that of organizer, executive and setter of the school's atmosphere, director of its purpose. She put her girls into corduroy uniforms?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Many a time has Captain Katzenjammer* famed obese comic-strip caperer, deceived his frau by making a balloon facsimile of himself, painting his vapid likeness on it, stuffing it into bed. Last week a helium-inflated Captain 50 feet tall floated off over Long Island. Fashioned by Tony Sarg, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Medalist | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

On a field frozen hard as a state road eleven West Pointers in gold sweaters played all afternoon without a substitution against a Notre Dame team that has the finest record in the U. S. Time and again Army tacklers broke through to down shifty Moon Mullins and Sprinter Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Goliaths. Giant planes of U. S. manufacture have met with bad luck. Fire almost destroyed Keystone's 18-passenger Patrician. Rebuilt, it toured the country, then at Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Eielson Lost? Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced of all Arctic flyers, was probably groping over the ice packs off Cape North, Siberia, last week. Flyer Eielson knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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