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...President's respectability: "Respectable, but not popular. [It] is the smallest, as to circulation, of the four New York City morning newspapers. . . . Its daily circulation [is] 293,304; its Sunday circulation 546,705. The paper is the mouthpiece of the New York-and-vicinity genteel moneyed crowd -the select coterie which feels that things British are superior to things American. . . . How did the Herald Tribune get to be an Anglomaniac newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whammed Again | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Company Easy, small but select, finds itself deep in the heart of Harvard. Coming into this sanctum of erudition from culturally sterile waste lands ranging from Chicago to the South Pacific was quite a shock...

Author: By Ens. STIMSON Bullitt, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 9/10/1943 | See Source »

...1920s, when U.S. prosperity was at its crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXPATRIATES: Return of the Native | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Formerly composed of the captains and managers of all athletic teams, the undergraduate Athletic Council had folded because of an acute shortage of members, One of its jobs was to select the three undergraduates to serve on the H. A. A. committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Undergrads Appointed To HAA Sports Committee | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Mozart's Regina Choelt will be vocalized by the select group, with the Boston Symphony: Orchestra lending a background. In all appearances of the chorus the Harvard Glee Club will provide half the personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO SING TONIGHT | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

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