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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coping with female students, he reported, could be literally overwhelming. "When [a professor] meets them coming down the sidewalk toward him three abreast, they refuse to break rank and simply push him off into the grass . . . They invariably park their bicycles right in front of the door or the steps and let you fall over them as you come out. If you survive that, they ride down upon you from the rear as silently as Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Male & Females | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Washington, D. C.: December 31, William T. Lesh '31, Securities and Exchange Commission; Western Michigan (Grand Rapids): Lee M. Hutchins '46, 38 Oak Street; Charleston, West Virginia: Frank R. Lyon, Jr., 1601 Kanawha Valley Building, and Worcester: Chester W. Cook '19, 75 Park Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Will Entertain During Recess | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...sounds were coming from Harry Truman's Administration. They were made by Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. Sawyer looks like a businessman and talks like a businessman, and back in his native Ohio he is one (two radio stations, a newspaper, a sports arena and an amusement park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Around Right End | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: Sad Santa | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Gwynne, who is from Tuxedo Park, New York, and Adams House, is one of the leading staff artists on the Poon. He also has one of the principal roles in this year's Hasty Pudding production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartoonist Fred Gwynne Is Elected Lampoon President | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

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