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...Harvard radicals planned to release white doves from beneath their gowns and walk out of the commencement. Inside the yard it was plain that they would do nothing of the sort. Harvard's capped-&-gowned seniors lined up respectfully to let a host of guests march past. Looking pale and cool in his black gown was Harvard's most distinguished guest: Lord Halifax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford Comes to Harvard | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...pale chalks, my palsled monkey, all my pretty nerves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Young Joe Lee lives in a home on Beacon Hill that was built in 1797, but he has spent most of his life helping underprivileged kids in the slums around the Hill. He loves to sail and swim, so to get the pale-faced children in the sun he persuaded Boston authorities to open a public beach on the Charles River Esplanade, taught them to sail in $25 boats that he designed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Money for Moppets | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Pallid, with a pale mustache, short and chunky in build, he is talkative, friendly, and regards himself as a policy-carrier-out, rather than a policymaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Managers? | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Robert Menzies is a conservative in a country that was New Dealish long before the New Deal, and where the labor movement is so tough that Australian-born Harry Bridges is just a pale expatriate compared to the sort they grow at home. Americans say that Menzies is like Wendell Willkie except that he won. A grocer's son and a prosperous lawyer before he went into politics, he was damned up & down under as the spokesman of the fiendish Interests, did not win labor's confidence until Australia's war production began to show results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Plain Talker from Down Under | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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