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Although not available last year, Senior Bill Towner is likely to see plenty of active service before long in a midfield post. An experienced and reliable defense is Ralph Livingston '39, a letterman both his Sophomore and Junior years. A sure bulwark is Al Blanchard '39, who has shown great possibilities in the midfield. Another midfield position is being contested for by veteran Jim Sullivan, the remaining Senior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Holds Night Drills in Briggs Cage Under Skip Stahley in Preparation for Spring Trip | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

When young Dr. Robert Towner Hill of Indiana University's School of Medicine performs an experiment he ponders the results with true scientific caution and does not commit himself until he knows exactly what he is talking about. Last week he revealed to reporters an astonishing secret he had guarded closely for three years. In 1935, he said, he castrated several male mice and planted ovaries in their transparent ears. He wanted to observe the activity of the borrowed organs but nothing happened. Disappointed, he went off on a three months' vacation, forgot all about the mice. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heated Rats, Masculine Mice | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Seven years ago, Bryan Untiedt, 12, became a U. S. celebrity when, by building a fire and giving up his own clothes, he helped save 14 children from freezing in a school bus stranded in a blizzard near Towner, Colo. Afterwards he visited Herbert Hoover at the White House, told the press he hoped to go to West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rescuer Rescued | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans in Columbus | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...character, a dance director who hates girls as some captains hate the sea, a man with women smothering, mothering and berating him at work and at home until he runs away from it all. Unfortunately, in his flight he runs across Ruth Williams (Jeanne Madden) a stage-struck small towner. After that Stage Struck becomes another Warner Brothers apologia for backstage Cinderellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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