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...welter of their personal memories which Harvard alumni fondly recollect, two points stand out which are highly essential for undergraduates to understand more clearly. Both of these deal with little known features of extra-curricular activities; and it is to clarify these points that the Crimson is today conducting a poll of the student body. It is hoped that this questionnaire will spotlight several issues which have been too long ignored, particularly by incoming Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIVING IN THE WORLD OF MEN | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

Twenty-six thousand cheering spectators wondered why, after his long-sought 14th victory, the pitcher did not prance gaily off the field, tossing wisecracks. In the clubhouse Gomez sat with bowed head, struggling to keep back tears. Said he: "I don't recollect that I was in a game. I don't know what batters I faced. I don't know who made the hits. . . . My whole life at home rolled before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lefty's 14th | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...distress has been caused to the Duke, I greatly regret it," winced the Garter King of Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Queen Mary's Wishes | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...name that caused many a ruction between the world and his wife. To the world, Author Glyn was hot stuff; to his wife, she was a Creature who wrote Vile Books. The post-War world can hardly remember what all the shouting was about, can just barely recollect that Elinor Glyn once wrote a notorious bestseller, Three Weeks, was credited with inventing "It," an outmoded synonym for the equally outmoded expression "sex appeal.'' Last week Elinor Glyn refreshed the U. S.'s memory about who and what she was. Her autobiography proudly admitted that she had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...will look at the organization in the State of Illinois and the men who are leading the organization, you will recollect every face of those who drove them out of the Republican Party, and if they are sitting in the front row at the Cleveland convention and dominate the platform and name the candidate, that ten million never will come back and other millions will go with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Long Ago & Far Away | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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