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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre. Muscovite socialites liked the way he conducted. But Sergei Rachmaninoff had other fish to fry. Not only was he Russia's best pianist, but also the composer of three operas, a symphony, two piano concertos and a sheaf of smaller and more popular operas. One of these, the "Flatbush" Prelude in C Sharp Minor, had already swept the world, made his name a byword among people who never went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rachmaninoff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...under way, Health Service has raised $3,000 in private contributions. In addition, the Service has the privilege of dipping into a $20,000 emergency pot guaranteed by Boston philanthropists. To make the Service selfsupporting, it needs a minimum of 4,000 participants. Last week when the plan was announced, members of Boston clubs and unions eagerly called for details, began to round up recruits for a grand opening, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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