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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked in this country only about one year after leaving school before he went to England. There he was employed in a steel company and later joined the Royal Air Force. Last summer he came out of swimming retirement long enough to capture a pair of seconds in British National Championships in the 220 and 440, his favorite events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Crimson Tank Star, Bill Kendall, to Be Front Line Aviator | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Roscoe Pound, former Law School Dean and now University Professor, will give a free, public lecture tomorrow night at 8 o'clock on "The Economic interpretation and the Law of Torts," in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound to Deliver First of Law School Faculty Lectures | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...Tennessee has always been considered minor league -just hillbilly stuff. Last year, when the unheralded boys from the Smokies burned up the Southeastern Conference,* won all ten games on their schedule (rolling up 276 points) and then drubbed undefeated Oklahoma, Big Six champion, in the Orange Bowl, even boarding-school girls in New England became aware that Tennessee could play football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Southern Accent | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Maureen O'Hara is a touchy, spunky, comely 18-year-old, as Irish as a banshee, with a lilting Dublin brogue. Like Mrs. Charles Laughton (Elsa Lanchester) she is a redhead. Before making Jamaica Inn, she studied at the apprentice school of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, did bits on the stage for a short time, bits in pictures. Though she was short on experience, one screen test convinced Actor-Producer Laughton that he should cast Maureen O'Hara in Jamaica Inn. Impressed by her success in that picture, RKO last month signed her to play Esmeralda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Vitamins. Even in California, the land of oranges and lemons, said Dr. Emile Frederic Holman of San Francisco's Stanford University School of Medicine, "44% of ordinary run-of-the-mill patients [are] deficient in vitamin C and 13% [are] on the verge of scurvy." They have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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