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...than any other single individual. Stripped of all its cultural appeal, the Great Lakes Exposition will be put across, if at all, by the bare body of Toto Leverne as displayed five times a day to the 1,000 pop-eyed customers of the French Casino. A Scottish lass, born Trudeye Davison, Toto Leverne went to Northwestern University for two years, quit in 1934 to dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Fun on a Dump | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Upon leaving Yale, President-Elect Ham need not feel entirely as though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Man to Mount Holyoke | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

CLANSMEN - Ethel Boileau - Dutton ($2.50). Pretentious history of a landed Scottish family, treating exhaustively the amorous career of a solid young scion, who is likely to interest the reader much less than he does the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Because Dr. Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, who legally changed his name to Buck Ruxton, strangled his wife and the pretty nursemaid who saw him do it, subsequently dismembered his victims and threw the bloody fragments into a Scottish ravine known as The Devil's Beef tub (TIME, March 23), British Justice last week hanged this murderer in the courtyard of Strangeways Jail, Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sweet Violet | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...line before the audience accepted him, started to laugh its approval. Muriel Dick-Son exhibited a sure, clear voice, a pleasing professional stage presence and a diction, so polished that it was difficult to believe that the D'Oyly Carte once frowned on her for a burry Scottish accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Experiment | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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