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...Sheridan after being contested by distant relatives of the late journalist's widow upon the traditional grounds that Mrs. Nieman was "not of sound mind and had not sufficient mentality to make a will", and that "undue influence upon her was exercised by persons or person unknown". Although the wielder of this influence was already spoken of as "unknown", the will-breakers were specific in exonnerating the President and Fellows of any attempt to obtain from the dying Mrs. Nieman the totally unexpected and apparently illogical gift of almost her entire $5,000,000 estate to Harvard, an institution without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman $5,000,000 Will Is Due For Hearing Before End of Week | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...steal a march on the New Deal, Manager Hamilton snapped: "Mr. White will have one vote out of the 18 from Kansas. Nobody is authorized to speak for Landon but Landon himself." Nonetheless Editor White was named Kansas' member of the convention's Resolutions Committee, thereby became wielder of the Landon pen in the writing of the platform. Constitution-loving Candidate Borah denounced the amendment proposal as a "matter of political expediency." But it remained a prime subject of convention talk, especially after Herbert Hoover paused at Ogden, Utah, on his way to Cleveland, announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Before the Flood | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Widener Library steps will again be stage for the Glee Club when they hold their second open air concert this evening at 7 o'clock. Baton wielder will be G. Wallace Woodworth '34, Director of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB CONCERT ON WIDENER STEPS TONIGHT | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

Reeding an informal request from University Hall, Tan Sargent, dexterous racquet-wielder of the squash team and intercollegiate champion, will not defend his title in the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SARGENT NOT ENTERED IN TITLE TOURNAMENT | 2/27/1935 | See Source »

...Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they may rest assured that there is action and bloodshed galore...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/24/1933 | See Source »

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