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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gaston Bayle | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Curiously illogical is the influence of morals and manners on the fortunes of musical and theatrical folk. Jenny Lind owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again Schumann-Heink | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Returning to Chicago, Burns met Emily del Pino (later Mrs. Burns, the plaintiff), who was then "37, of good character and morals ... in possession of a flourishing business and doing well." Burns boarded at her mother's house, during which time he illegally obtained pay-check money while timekeeper for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

President Bernard Barnes '30 will speak to the assembled candidates, outlining the general character of CRIMSON competitions, and then turn them over to the respective department heads. The competitions will last approximately nine weeks, finishing about November 30.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR COMPETITIONS FOR THE CRIMSON TO OPEN | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Coach French has much to live up to if one considers the record amassed by former Freshman coach E. L. Casey '19, who saw his eleven defeated but once in his three years as mentor and that in the fall of 1926, the first game the Freshmen played with Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French's Appointment Secures Unified Horween System | 9/20/1929 | See Source »

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