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...CENTURY AGO, WHEN AMERICANS HAD MORE AUSTERE sexual habits, they elected a President who was widely known to have had an illegitimate child. As a candidate, Grover Cleveland was mocked with the chant "Ma, Ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House. Ha, ha, ha." Yet Cleveland won the White House, occasioning his supporters' memorable retort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of Mass Hypocrisy | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...directed that no picture from his collection could be loaned, sold, reproduced or even moved from its position on the wall. Future control of the foundation, he decreed, would be in the hands of trustees appointed by Lincoln University, a small black college in Lincoln University, Pa. Since then, alumni of the school he founded in 1922, which replaced factual art history with a proto-New Age veneration of beauty, have increasingly formed a fiercely loyal and protective cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want To See Some Secret Pictures? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard men's lacrosse team (1-3 overall, 0-2 Ivy) limited another opponent to single digits yesterday, but failed to produce on the offensive end, as Pennsylvania bumped off the Crimson, 7-3, in Philadelphia, Pa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Keep Laxmen Reeling | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The Harvard wrestling team's season came to a close Saturday at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships here...

Author: By Andrew J. Arends, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Grapplers Take Ninth at Eastern Championships | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...first night of the gulf-war ground assault, Army artillery Captain Jeffrey Davis helped pour hundreds of rounds of high explosives into Iraqi positions. A month later, he was feted in a triumphal Stateside victory parade. Last week Captain Davis, 29, a seven-year veteran from Wyalusing, Pa., was facing unemployment, squeezed from the Army by declining defense budgets. "I served well," said Davis, who had dreamed of a military career. "Now I hope I can compete in the real world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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