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Photographers, informal or otherwise, are as honey to the eyes of Alfred M. Weisberg '47, photographic big-wig of the 1947-48 Album. According to Weisberg, he is at present carrying alone the pictorial burden of the massive tome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Album Photo Chief Issues Cry for Aid | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...sort of phame that Edward Lear was after. A shy, pear-shaped six-footer with a bulging nose and "a beard that resembles a wig," he was a melancholy bachelor who could "blubber bottlesful" over Tennyson's poems. The son of a bankrupt, he began painting for his living at 15. It was as a painter, and not as a writer of "bosh," that he wished to be known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lear Without Bosh | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...students are welcome to try out, according to Spear. First trials of candidates are scheduled for 4 o'clock, September 23, on the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building. Practice for the wig-waggers will be held at least twice weekly during the fall, he said, although more intensive sessions will take place in the next two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brawn or Agility No Prerequisites To Success with Cheerleading Squad | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing a wig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor-who looks every inch the part, in or out of his white wig-arrived in the U.S. for a month's visit, explained himself to Manhattan reporters. The Lord Chancellor, Jowitt said, is a "sort of combination of a chief justice and a minister of justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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