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Since Princeton upset the Big Green in its opening contest, the Hanover quintet has been little short of terrific. Five straight scalps have entered the New Hampshire wigwam, the Crimson's among them, and Dartmouth is anxious to move to its sixth successive League title...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Hungry Indians Meet Unpredictable Crimson | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...Leagut will conclude its 39th season with the seventh playoff in its history. During the skirmishing of the past few days, a towering Dartmouth Indian made off with a half a claim to the 1942 title but recent developments also indicate that he may have to emerge from his wigwam once more this year in an attempt to wrest the remaining 50 per cent from a somewhat stubborn Princeton Tiger. If the battle materializes, it will make Frank Buck's tales listen like a bedtime story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS, INDIANS MAY MEEET IN BASKETBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFF | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

...last night he had changed his mind, and was drawing up plans for making the Mt. Auburn Street wigwam into an Irish night club with a neon sign reading. "No one but Irish need enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Warns That College Expansion Era Is Over | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

...Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pilgrim | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Wolfe pack lives mostly on aristocratic East Broad Street, pays little attention to Columbus society. Fifteen miles outside the city is the famed "Wigwam," which the Wolfes also share in common- a big wooded tract dotted with rustic lodges, a reception hall, movie theatre, swimming pool. Here Wolfes and their families gather in complete privacy for wholesome fun. Parties at the Wigwam sometimes run to several hundred guests. Herbert Hoover has been there often; so have Alf Landon, Frank Knox, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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