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...agreement struck by Robert Walsh, student council president, and Harriet Sheridan dean of the college, the university will institute a new calendar in accordance with a recent student calender reform poil, and will raise its credit requirement...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Brown Adopts New Calendar, Increases Credit Requirement | 4/25/1981 | See Source »

...poil also stated that although the majority of Americans believe Carter should have handled the brigade issue differently, more respondents now disapprove of full U.S. diplomatic recognition of Cuba. The latest poll says 39 per cent now favor recognition, compared to 47 per cent last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Policy Poll | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Leading American publishers and journalists have given Harvard's Nieman Fellow program an "unqualified endorsement" in an informal poil designed to gather opinions on the future course of the program...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Pusey Seeks Successor To Louis Lyons | 1/9/1964 | See Source »

...Manhattan newspaper offices, telephones began jangling crazily. Angry voices wanted to know if the terrible rumor was true. It was. One choked-up caller exploded: "Geez, it's Poil Hobba for the Giants." Said another: "O.K., send a photographer down to Brooklyn Bridge in 20 minutes. I'm jumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Friday | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...usually did not develop special talent for the camera but made movies that attracted and used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed by polished, twinkling Louis Jouvet, a director of the Comédie-Française and one of France's most illustrious actor-managers. Beautifully played to the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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