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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maida Van Schuyler, who books shows for stag banquets, but "there isn't a dime left in this lousy business. . . . The moving pictures have spoiled it." So she is thinking of becoming a medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Carnies, Heels and Indians | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Beating the gun on winter dances, Dunster will have an informal record dance tomorrow night, open to all students in the College upon payment of 50 cents for a couple or one dollar stag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/6/1942 | See Source »

Bernard is Isaac's oldest son. Big, barrel-chested, clean-living, popular, he was an amateur boxer in his youth, owns Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's, and is called "Uncle Bernie" by the children of his friend Gene Tunney. He achieved his Gimbel hegemony partly through the backing of Julius Rosenwald, then financially interested. Close friend of Horace Saks, Bernard promoted the Saks-Gimbel merger in 1923. Bernard and Horace worked out the deal while riding on a coffin in a baggage car, the smoking car being too crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: To the Old Adam | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Both affairs will be held in the Union. Freshmen can escort their girls for supper before the record dance. The price of the dance is 40 cents "stag or drag." Although the committee has planned some activities for the week before the Christmas dinner, they were not disclosed. Whether Charles Townoend Copeland '32 will give his annual reading is not known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Decides On Dinner, Record Dance | 11/28/1941 | See Source »

...Hall condescendingly delivered the opinion that Ickes might have meant well, but that the cars came pouring into the Yard as fast and furiously as ever, and if anything was ever really done about it, Harvard students would rot in their rooms rather than walk as far as the Stag Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Considered Putty In Hands of Strange Fate | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

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