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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the frost-bleared windows of the St. Bernard hospice,* 8,000 feet up in the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hospice | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...AIRPLANE BELIEVED TO BE COL LINDBERGHS WAS SIGHTED AS IT PASSED OVER TALLULAH BY FRANK HULE A TRAIN DISPATCHER AT ELEVEN TEN CENTRAL TIME TONIGHT ASSOCIATED PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Ambassador | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...banking, teaching, or manufacturing, Mr. Henry Jewett, Director of the Repertory Theatre, said yesterday in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, that he was planning to offer to a limited number of Harvard students interested in the theatre, either from an acting or playwriting point of view, opportunities to train themselves under his and his company's direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFERS STUDENTS THESPIAN CAREER | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...Repertory Theatre," Mr. Jewett said, "is striving to put before the public the best type of drama and acting possible; hence, if a man should decide to go on the stage, or to write, and is willing to train here, he will have the guidance of experienced actors ready to assist him in any need that may arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFERS STUDENTS THESPIAN CAREER | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

WHATEVER WE DO ? Allan Upde-graff?John Day ($2.50). Cloppety-Clop. The little French train rushed through the pines toward Valloire, modest neighbor of Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Ladies | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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