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...succeeding years, under his influence, the school grew rich and great. From Nice, France last week came word that Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns, 61, was resigning because of ill health. Accepting regretfully the resignation, the trustees announced that Latin Instructor Charles Henry ("Charlie") Forbes, a short, chubby, popular classicist, possessor of one of the world's best Virgil libraries, would continue to serve as acting headmaster. And Andover men everywhere began speculating as to Andover's future growth under a new headmaster, one who it is hoped may also be chosen from the school's faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Changes for Andover | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou eat thy cake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...16th century by Durer and Holbein. The work of Durer is represented by the "St. Michael" from the "Apocalypse" series and by two examples from the "Life of the Virgin" series. Holbein is represented by a series of cuts called "The Dance of Death." The Fogg Museum is the possessor of one of the six known complete sets of the proofs of this series. There is also an exhibition a first edition of Holbein's book, "Los Simulachres at Histories Faces do la Mort," which is lent to the museum by Philip Hofer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/25/1932 | See Source »

...Picasso, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, Negrophile Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rayograms | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Scene: the main reading room of Yale University's expensive new Sterling Memorial Library. Time: convivial Derby Day last fortnight (TIME, May 25). Characters: Author Harry Sinclair Lewis, Yale 1907, possessor of a large gold medal worth $500 which he received along with his $46,350 Nobel Prize; Harrison Smith, Yale 1907, tall, dignified publisher (Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc.); Dr. Charles Everett Rush, associate librarian in charge during the absence of Librarian Andrew Keogh; Gary Selden Rodman, an editor of Yale's Harkness Hoot, friend of Author Lewis. Dialog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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