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Thomas Schofield Handforth of Tacoma, Wash., and George Overbury ("Pop") Hart of Coytesville, N. J., and many other places, have the greatest wanderlust of all. Handforth's delight is to sketch shepherds in Arabia and scenes in Tunis; Hart's to watch and sketch cockfights, mandolin players in Mexico and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Etching v. British | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Like "Ol' Man River" the game of football seems to be just rolling along in spite of the death notices which it receives from the press at stated intervals. The latest, and one of the best criticisms of the sport as it now exists in the American college world comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUE AND CRY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

In an ingenious manner, Mr. Tunis has classified football into three periods, the Rah-Rah Stage, the age of Big Business, and the decadent period. Writing from an eastern point of view he sees the college man and the player of our Eastern universities gradually becoming less football conscious, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUE AND CRY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

The appropriation was made in 1855, and in that year a ship was outfitted for the voyage and sent in search of camels. Ten were purchased on this trip, three in Tunis and seven in Smyrna, and duly brought back to serve as pack animals in the American Desert.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BOOK RELATES ODD VENTURE OF CONGRESS | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

Poet John Howard Payne wrote the extra verses in 1829 as a personal tribute to the "exile" of the verses-Lucretia Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, famed London banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home, Sweet Home | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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