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...Aunt Agnes'" proteges believes that his fellowship is probably "the tops." I remember when I used to look at the bulletin boards and wish that I could win a $300 scholarship. A scholarship like this which permits one to leave one's work is a great blessing," commented the scribe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irving Dilliard Settles Down in Frankfurter's Home to Study | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...additions to an already imposing list of celebrities include Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck; Margot Grahame, star of the recently opened play "Lady At Large" now at the Plymouth; Joe Cashman, sports scribe of the Boston American; cartoonist Dahl of the Herald; Felix Adler, world-famous Ringling clown; and the Joseph Champagnes, well-known Boston dancing couple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CELEBRITIES TOP BILL TONIGHT AT FRESHMAN SMOKER | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

...fall sports season soon starts feeling its strength. Time comes for asking what here you got. Football scribes rub their chins and don't say very much. Asked about Harvard soccer, the good scribe does the same thing but he might put his tongue in his check. There is a distinct feeling that Varsity Coach Jack Carr may be about to open a golden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining them Up | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

...Richard's son, Increase Mather, was Harvard's sixth president. Increase sired Cotton Mather, prodigious Puritan scribe (450 books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Corporations | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

With jackals and hyenas howling outside the Royal Palace at Addis Ababa last week, a jovial Englishman with the fat chaps of John Bull and a dour Maine Yankee worked furiously in secret. They were writing up something in English, something so important that no one Ethiopian scribe got a look at the whole thing. By the Emperor's command the English sheets were scrambled and handed out of order to different Ethiopian translators, all vowed to secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: 12-to-8 Concession | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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