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Robert Clurman '41, has been chosen winner of the Fifth National College Short Story Contest conducted by "Story" Magazine and will receive $100. His story was entitled "The Raincoat" and is a psychological fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Story Contest Is Won By Yarding's Fiction Entry | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

...board, $8.75 a week; for lunches, $1.25; for clothing, $2.87; and $4.13 for everything else, including such things as health, recreation, transportation, personal care, savings & insurance, church & charity. Some annual clothing items: three hats at $1.95, one at $2.95; three sweaters at $1.69; three handbags at $1; one $3.95 raincoat every three years; one heavy coat ($29.50), one light coat ($16.95) every two years; four slips fit $1.69; two girdles at $3.95; one scarf at $1; two collar-&-cuff sets at 59?; six bloomers and panties at 59?; two pairs of shoes at $5, two at $4; two "dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Working Girls' Lingerie | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...huge playing cards, the first panel shows Edward on his throne, vacillating, a kneeling Stanley Baldwin offering him a crown. Mrs. Simpson waits at the garden gate with her pet dog while the Archbishop of Canterbury and Queen Mary look on in horror. In the second panel, Edward in raincoat with Mrs. Simpson on his arm is marching over a bridge. Queen and Archbishop are still horrified, while Stanley Baldwin as the Jack of Clubs sits completely dejected on a stone beside a sorrowing Knave who might be Anthony Eden. In both panels prances a mischievous Cupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Twelve-Day Mural | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...forecast was verified to the letter: the rainfall was intermittent: it was light, the amount at Blue Hill was only 0.08 inch up to 12:30. I was present throughout the exercises, wearing an academic gown but no raincoat or other protection, and did not get wet through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat for chilly evenings, camera & films, light, ankle-high walking boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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