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...censors would not like a brief and effective message such as 'Nova explosion Puppis shoot nightly using whole battery' followed by positional numbers and the word 'urgent.' That sounds subversive. The equivalent 'Make systematic observations of bright new star in constellation Puppis near star Zeta using all telescopes' is satisfactory and expensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSORSHIP FORMS DIFFICULTY FOR OBSERVATORY MESSAGES | 4/4/1944 | See Source »

...revolution hit China before Mei-ling hit Wellesley, and her only excitement about it was what she caught from her sister Ching-ling (who later married Dr. Sun). At Wellesley her favorite course was Arthurian Romance. She joined Tau Zeta Epsilon, spoke a languid Southern accent, and was sometimes vivacious, sometimes somber, always neat. Professor Annie K. Tuell, with whom she lived, says: "She kept up an awful thinking about everything." She used to speak eloquently of China's contributions to civilization, and regretted Western neglect of them. But she wrote a friend: "The only thing Oriental about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Madame | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...California at Los Angeles. He donates fancy water wagons to the U. C. L. A. football team, awards a loving cup to the university's most valuable football player every year, frequently presides over athletic banquets. Two years ago he was taken in as a regular member of Zeta Psi, to which his sons Joe Leroy and Don Evan belong, went through the traditional initiation. He is the only nonstudent ever to get a letter from U. C. L. A., an honor that has impressed him so much that he usually wears his blue "C" on a sweater when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Elmer | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Forty members of the Zeta Alpha Society of Wellesley College are to be entertained by the Pierian Sodality next Monday afternoon in the rooms on the third floor of the north entry of Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...saxophone player who finished school easily and received a degree. Of the original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhythm is His Business | 10/27/1937 | See Source »

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