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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saint-Simon mentions this tale in his Memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Dwarfs | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Major Gorden Reel, former New York State Highway Commissioner and an officer in the Air Service Reserve, last week told the New York Exchange Club a tale of the air. Told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Story | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...tells the extraordinary tale of the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy's footman and disciple, Calvin Frye. Frye was found one evening, "unconscious, speechless, eyes closed, apparently breathless, with no pulse and no indication of life. . . ." Frye was placed in a rocking chair. Mrs. Eddy stood over him, in the stuffy room, and said loudly: "Calvin, this cause needs you. Mother needs you and you must not leave. . . ." Frye at this supplication, wriggled and whispered: "I don't want to stay, I want to go." The next morning Frye was about his "mother's" business in the household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scientists | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...maintaining a high quality in the treatment of a set subject. A member of the CRIMSON board said recently that the vent in his life which he enjoyed most was his interview with Jane Cowl I think the article that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed and hung in my office. We will not go into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around World Number Triumph--Zenith Reached in Lampoon Humor | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...Petrushka was the beginning-a master's tale of an individual tragedy made fittingly little to suit a puppet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again Stravinsky | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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