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In accordance with its avowed editorial policy of "croaking, and croaking loud about the soggy spots in the cake of College life . . ." the daily Dartmouth, Indian undergraduate newspaper, inaugurated an attack on Dartmouth academic conditions Tuesday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Undergraduate Daily Blasts Boring Courses, Mossgrown Cut System | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

Scion of an ancient Venetian family, suave, blond Count Cippico is a close friend of Arthur Davis, chairman of the board of Aluminum Co. of America. Both men are heavy smokers and some three years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Zeus | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

In 1923 and 1924 Yale got some good players of its own. The first year Yale beat Harvard 13-0 in spite of the soggy underground which held back Mal Stevens and other fleet-footed Yale backs. But Ducky Pond just loved it. He sloshed through for 67 yards and...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

Mingalone drifted away so rapidly that his ground crew had no time to use a rifle brought along to puncture the balloons in an emergency. With Mingalone disappearing in a rain cloud at 2,500 ft., frantic Cameraman Coolidge and Father Mullen piled into their auto, dashed toward Saco where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Floating Cameraman | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

In the summer of 1845, on an Irish air long heavy with the smell of dung heaps, peat bogs and the personal reek of an ill-kempt and poverty-ridden citizenry, a new and more awful odor arose. Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Air | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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