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(for doing two hours' honest scrubbing in the skyscraper Cathedral of Learning five nights a week) to pay their tuition fees, thus leaving $66 a semester (about $15 a month) for board & room, books and spending money. The freshmen rebelled.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Homestretch | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Last week, Grofe's latest composition, a ballet called Cafe Society, was given its first hearing in Chicago's skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cyrano von Grofe | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Leila Roosevelt Denis, their native porters and a battery of ubiquitous cameras. In the course of their journey the Denis party discovered a race of giants, the Watusi, who look like Egyptian sculptures and dance like jitterbugs, and surprised a Pygmy tribe in the act of building a skyscraper bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

(N.J.) and four of the major U. S. airlines with his contention that the logical metropolitan air terminal for mail, express and passengers was not Newark but New York City. Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: LaGuardia's Coup | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

"The only skyscraping girls' school in the world'' is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sister Mary's Pendulum | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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