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...Sigma Kappa fraternity at the Uni-versity of Kentucky last week ousted Mc-Chord Christie, 23-year-old senior. He had snooped, tattled, aided Federal agents in raiding a college rooming house and a student-patronized speakeasy. It was pointed out that McChord Christie had himself once engaged in legging. Said he: "I am on the other side now, though, and I am not going to stop until I have cleaned up college bootlegging in Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer at Harvard | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: In Evanston, Ill., dancer Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray) was enlisted to boost ticket sales for Northwestern Uni- versity's senior ball. A band played. Dancer Gray pranced. Northwesterners bought three tickets, suggested she take off her coat. She fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Jeans, are bilingual, can also make themselves understood in fairly plain English. Cautious, Jeans concepts does can not be admit that translated; math says the most you can do is to talk in analogies that must not be taken too literally. "A scientific study of the action of the uni verse appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician. . . . The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-Newtonian | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Chicago, Cincinnati and Minneapolis will hear their first programs on Oct. 17. Under Conductor Frederick Stock the Chicago Symphony will give its usual series in Orchestra Hall, additional concerts in Milwaukee and at the Uni-versity of Chicago. The Cincinnati Symphony points with pride to its thriving under the sponsorship of the Institute of Fine Arts (endowment scheme begun three years ago by Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and her late husband). Minneapolis concerts under Belgian Henri Verbrugghen are to be broadcast over a nationwide hookup. Mrs. Carlyle Scott is this Orchestra's new manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up Strike Orchestras | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viper Heads | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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