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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most pugnacious little game fish is the bluefish. Around Cape Cod anglers are still trying to equal the world's-record 25-pounder taken off Cohasset in 1874-oldest salt-water-mark in record-books. Among this generation of fishermen, no one has come within eight pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Award of the annual Bowdoin prizes for dissertations in English, the oldest prize awards in Harvard to two graduate students and three undergraduates was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE WINNERS OF ANNUAL BOWDOIN PRIZES SELECTED | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

...Conant should consent to address the Teachers' Union is a long feather in the caps of organized teachers. It is a fitting tribute to wise leadership and constructive policy on the part of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers that the President of Harvard, proudest and oldest university in the land, should be the first to kiss timidly the brow of organized labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS MAJESTY'S LOYAL OPPOSITION | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Empress Nagako gave patriotic Japanese the jitters by producing four daughters before giving birth in 1933 to a son and heir to the world's oldest unbroken dynasty. Cute, deadpan Crown Prince Akihito ("The prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") is now five years old, has his own palace, likes to climb trees and ride on the palace lawn in his toy automobile and bicycle. Twenty young sons of peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Specialists | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Kindly, near-sighted Burns Mantle (News) is, at 65, the oldest of the news paper critics. Nationally known for his annual The Best Plays of 19-, he is often sound, almost always dull. His best advertisement is his trick of rating plays by stars. Tops (* * * *) he gave this season only to the revived Outward Bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Makers & Breakers | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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