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...successor to such distinguished editorial chiefs as Charles R. Miller and Rollo Ogden, Charles Merz (rhymes with purrs) is 45. tall, greying, with a small black mustache and big black brows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Merz for Finley | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...independent fashion. If indifference means no more than this, who can object? But if the criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities of growth than that Duke University will launch a crusade against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BEING INDIFFERENT | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Musty, tiny Bow Street Police Court in London opened one day last week with a case of two Irishmen caught fighting in the street. Later a prostitute was arraigned. As Chief Magistrate Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell was hearing evidence on this case, a tall, 42-year-old Danish Count, wearing a blue serge suit, carrying a brief case, strode in. Next entered a slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insult | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...most exciting races of the afternoon was a half mile duel between Al Hanlon '39 and Rollo Campbell '41. Though Joe Donnelly '40 won the race with a fifty yard handicap to his benefit Hanlon and Campbell were the focal point when they ran abreast down the back stretch, Hanlon in the last few yards edging out Campbell. Hanlon's time was 1 minute, 57.3 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE DOWNING STARS IN UNIVERSITY MEET | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Also shown is a complete set of first editions of the famous "Rollo" books, published a century or so ago. These were among the earliest childhood books read by Miss Lowell and her brothers Percival and Abbott Lawrence, and her sister Elizabeth, and have been in constant possession of the Lowell family since publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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