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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walt Kernan and Barr Comstock stroked the second and third heavies, who also turned out. Three more Varsity and several Freshmen boats completed the ranks of crews which got out for the first day. At least three more of Bert Haines 150's will be down soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS TAKE TO RIVER IN EARLY TRIAL RUNS | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...interested in motion pictures while studying zoology at the University of Arizona, has since filmed animals from amoebas to whales. He and Brother Horace spent a year in Mexico filming Chico, his peon father, innumerable animal actors: tanklike armadillos, ridiculously funny honey bears, a lion making a kill, deer Walt Disney might have drawn. The film has a hybrid dramatic content: It is a touching, entertaining mixture of the most sentimental Silly Symphonies, the most thumping Westerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Barnard Associates were founded to "emulate John Barnard of the Class of 1700, who was fond of good books and did what he could for Harvard." This is the fourth publication of the society which has already issued facsimiles of the Shelley Notebook and one of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," both owned by the College Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crane's "Hazelford Sketch Book" Published by Press | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Like many another inventor, Otto Zachow had no head for finance. He and his brother-in-law, William Besserdich, unable to get their machine into production, interested a husky young lawyer named Walter Alfred Olen. Walt Olen set out to raise $250,000. In 1910 the present company was incorporated, with him as president, and Otto Zachow received a block of stock. About 1914 Zachow and Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Walt Disney's first feature-length animated cartoon is (1 Brother Roy, 2 Charlie McCarthy, 3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 4 Jack the Giant Killer, 5 Mary and Her Snow-White Lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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