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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile it was believed that a special Faculty investigating committee was considering establishing the annual on a permanent basis. Provision to appoint a member of the Law School to the presidency of the album committee is the chief plank in their program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decry Use of Surprise $3,000 Yearbook Gain | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...Guardian (new undergraduate magazine), is a member of the Dramatic Club and is on the Dean's List (high-standing students). In spite of the fact that he broke his arm when he was five and broke his back when he was 14, hence has to do special exercises before running, experts expect Jim Lightbody Jr. to equal the feats of his famed father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lightbodies | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...runs in the Earle family. Eyvind's father, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, is noted not only for five successive marriages and a generally Byronic character but for his writing. He recoined the delicate noun "affinity" into its special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Water-Colorists | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Chopper George Washington's birthday). It was also whole or part of "National Defense Week," "National Orange Week," "Better American Speech Week," "National Horace Heidt Record Week."* Last week, too, the biggest U. S. industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pie and Jalopies | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Last week Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry Frieze Vaughan asked his city council to offer a bounty of three cents for every dead rat delivered to the Department of Public Works (garbage). Special employes of that department killed 900,000 Detroit rats last year, expect to kill 2,000,000 rats this year. But Health Commissioner Vaughan wanted to get the 2.000.000 killed in a great hurry, for an epidemic of infective jaundice was spreading in Detroit. Twenty-two children had contracted the disease. One, Donald Siegle, had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Detroit's Rats | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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