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...good friend of my friend Christopher Robin, dictated this letter to me and asked that it be published. He is rather upset about the whole affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More . . . | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...students present elected A. Brooks Wilder '50 of Lowell House and Wheaton, Ill., as president. Robert K. Nesbit '51 of Kirkland House and Cleveland, Ohio, was chosen vice-president, and the next secretary will be Robin Esch '51 of Lowell House and Washington, D.C. The group's treasurer will be Charles Hughes '50 of Eliot House and New York city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Elects 1949 Slate Of Club Officers | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

Without his expensive extras, man is a bare-skinned tropical animal. Unlike the mink, he has no fur coat of his own; unlike the robin, he cannot fly south under his own power. If he insists on living in cold countries, he must create small areas of artificial tropics and stay in them most of the winter. He calls these refuges "buildings," and he is forever trying to make them more comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Better Housekeeping | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...will be a round-robin competition of two eight-team loops--the National and American. The same halls represented in Yard football will enter squads, with the exception that a team from Massachusetts will be substituted for Wigglesworth of the National League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Quintets to Clash on Monday | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mystery of the Flying Heads | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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