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...open letter, to students, Heidelberg University requests secondhand books, principally American literature, to rebuild its war-tern library of American classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heidelberg Requests Second-Hand Books | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...LEFT TERN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Resident members of Leverett and Kirkland Houses who do not file their second-tern room contracts at Lehman Hall before 5 p.m. today run the risk of incurring a five dollar fine. Illness or unavoidable absence are the only acceptable excuses for not filling, officials in the Bursar's office and yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Kirkland Sign Room Contracts | 3/23/1950 | See Source »

Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not Since Scopes? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...stated at this time, that "I have continually been in the minority of this delegation. After the meeting yesterday in which I voiced sentiment against those of the majority I observed my suitcase and passport in good condition. Twenty minutes later my suitcase was opened and the passport tern...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Youth Told of Grim U.S. at Budapest | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

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