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Napkins were the chief point of controversy on the Wellesley campus just before the holidays. The old system under which students supplied their own was pleasing no one. The College shied away from an extensive outlay for new linen napkins and at one time considered upping the tuition to cover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

For 24 weeks musical Manhattan has been saying good-by to Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Praised without end for his 27-year record as manager of the Metropolitan Opera, swamped with good wishes for his old age in Italy, massive old Gatti shied from the demonstrations. Last week he was glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Good-by | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Newsdom, a Depression-born trade journal, asked a picked group of the nation's newsmen for a personal ''Yes'' or ''No'' on the New Deal. By last week it had received and tabulated replies from editors and publishers of about 35...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Polls & Policies | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

On display in the Coney Island yards of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. last week was the first high-speed aluminum train to be tried on New York City's vast subway system. At leather seats, indirect lighting, pastel color schemes, chimes for sliding doors, subway sardines gaped in astonishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sale by Subway | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

*Another freak racing accident occurred on the second day of racing at Belmont. Samuel Riddle's All Aflame was leading in the Lark Purse, Jockey Charlie Kurtsinger up, when suddenly the colt shied at the crowd's cheers, bolted to the inside rail, crossed legs, tripped, fell. Jockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mrs. Sloane's Week | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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