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...Robin Scully '40 and Stanley H. Papner '40, arguing for the negative, decried the loss of amateur spirit and the lowering of academic standards that would inevitably result from "paying a flock of coal miners and country by to play football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Subsidation Argued By Union Debating Council | 12/17/1936 | See Source »

...members of the Royal Family, omits all of the above, fails to appear. The House of Commons: There are cheers for Stanley ("Old Sealed Lips") Baldwin and louder cheers for his political foe Winston Churchill, who has got 60 M. P.'s to sign with him a round robin telling the King that if he accepts Mr. Baldwin's resignation Mr. Churchill is ready to obey a command to become Prime Minister and his King's Men will support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...dinner in the House and afterwards to my Attic to smoke for a minute, when H--and I go off again--to the movies. Franchot Tone very amusing, poor ex-idol Clark Gable on the way down hill. On the way home talk about Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood"--wish they would remake "Robin Hood". With anybody but Fred March. So to bed at no later than eleven for a sweet night's sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/9/1936 | See Source »

President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wriston to Brown | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Ramona (Twentieth Century-Fox). The cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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