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Chosen by Edward M. Rowe '27, Director of Debating, were: Arthur Cantor '40, Stanley Epstein '39, Ward Dussey '40, Enno Hobbing '40, Sterling Kenneth '40, Stanley Kapner '40, Sherman J. Maisel '39, and Robin Scully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT MEN WIN PLACES ON DEBATING COUNCIL | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...church and they were so annoyed that they broke the preacher's arm. As a result of that, they joined their mother who was in the county workhouse on a larceny charge. When the brothers got out they ran away from school and set up a sort of Robin Hood headquarters in the Welsh Mountains in southeastern Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Unhappy Horse Thief | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...years later, shows how right she was. Kay, who wanted to be a novelist, is a journalist and hates it. Robin (Christopher Quest) is a no-account. Madge (Joan Henley), who dreamed of reforming the world, is an embittered schoolteacher. Hazel (Hazel Terry), who wanted a handsome husband with a yacht, has only a husband. Little Carol (Mary Jones), who loved life so passionately, is dead. Mrs. Conway (Dame Sybil Thorndike) is aging gracelessly. And so it goes. Only Alan (Godfrey Kenton) is contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...KNAVES-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). A murder, forged bonds, a clash with big British smugglers, a fight with a blackmailer who threatens to carve the faces of movie stars, provide the complications of three novelettes about that brash and amusing Robin Hood called the Saint. Exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...their initial meeting in the Union last evening, Freshman debating candidates voted to attend a round robin debating tournament at Dartmouth April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Debaters Accept Bid to Six-Team Tournament | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

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