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Most Patagonians and a good many Americans consider TIME the No. 1 U. S. Magazine. Just as many, and perhaps more, Americans think of it as an overripe opinion sheet, filled with Yalemen, an inflated sense of its infallibility, and an intense desire to diddle at President-making. For every reader who admires the reporting and commentary of a staff that has included men like John Horsey, Theodore White, John Scott and Robert Sherrod, there is at least another who shudders at the forced cliches and elephantine ponderosities of "TIME-style" and gags at the thought of swallowing the Luce...
...apparently attended a well-known university in New Haven, her youngest son Frankie spent his undergraduate days in Cambridge. And even when Mrs. Pierson was a young filly stopping out with the college youth of Connecticut, she remembered to tell them that her Crimson friends had "warned her about Yalemen...
...Pete's Teas," two-hour Monday-afternoon discussions of human frailty, have been a Yale institution. So was their chief attraction, white-bristled Professor Petrunkevitch. Generations of Yalemen have seen his gaunt figure trotting briskly about the campus to 13 hours of classes a day. At 68, 'Pete was just getting his second wind. No more classes-but he planned to continue his faculty-student gatherings as "Pete's Teas-Emeritus," and he announced his intention of writing a three-volume summary of what he has learned about spiders. On that subject Dr. Petrunkevitch has a great...
Said President Charles Seymour: "All Yale mourns the death of her Billy Phelps." Nor would the mourning be limited to Yalemen...
While Harvardmen cheered young Tom Bolles (rhymes with goals), whose Crimson shells have won 31 out of 34 varsity races in the six years he has coached at Cambridge, Yalemen bemoaned the fact that after 20 years as varsity coach, Ed Leader will step down to become advisory coach for Eli intramural rowing...