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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three officers of the CRIMSON are the first students ever to be listed in the book. They are C. Foote '39, Managing Editor, E. Grant '39, Ed. Chairman, and A. Cleveland '39, President, and impressionistic touch by the compilers instead of his real name, Cleveland Amery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRONG NAMES, NOT NUMBERS FEATURE LOCAL PHONE BOOK | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Dudley, last year's champion, is dead-locked with the Elephants for first place in the House touch football league with Kirkland and Lowell tied for second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAMBLERS, ELEPHANTS DEADLOCKED IN TOUCH | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Superpatriot | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...patience. Main trouble was that, like blind people, he anticipated objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Elmer Gantry | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...print the Burns character is that of a cracker-barrel philosopher, whose favorite characters (both fictional) are his Aunt Doody and Grandpa Snazzy. In real life Cracker Barrel Burns has an $85,000 house, amuses himself with amateur astronomy, maintains the common touch by driving about in a Ford. His next picture will be I'm From Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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