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...week was not without its crop of rumors. At Syracuse, N. Y. there was a flurry when it was discovered that a baby favoring the Lindbergh child had arrived on a nearby farm. A Lockheed low-wing monoplane alighted at Newark Airport and its two passengers electrified spectators with a package containing "something alive." The plane, it developed, belonged to Asa Candler ("Coca-Cola") of Atlanta, Ga. "Something alive" was a pair of small monkeys which Mr. Candler was sending to friends in New Hampshire...
Hometown: New York, N. Y...
Hometown: New York, N. Y...
...started with a failed story. Jennifer Y. Hyman ’02, then an associate editor at this magazine, was left with a day to pull something together for her editor to fill its place. In an epiphany whose repercussions she could not have understood at the time, Hyman decided it might be a good idea to expand Scoped!—a feature that now, as then, profiles random hot students...
...taste of the Big Mac. But I think that the Big Mac is a useful example here, when we think of the oft-heard geo-political quip that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war. The Golden Arches have replaced the circled, upside-down Y with a line in the middle as the symbol of peace. Once the electricity is running in Baghdad, I think someone should open a Mickey-Dees...