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Just two inches taller than his 57-inch billiard cue, Kinrey Matsuyama casts a giant shadow upon the green-baize background of billiards. Two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red, White & Green | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Historical Background of American Literature of the XIX century", Professor Murdock, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...Historical Background of American Literature of the XIX century", Professor Murdock, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell will speak at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on the subject "Facts and Dogmas of Democracy," and the Vagabond hardly needs say that anyone missing such an opportunity no longer deserves the privilege of wearing the vagabonder's insignia--curiosity rampart on a background of roller-skates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

...Victoria Childs is a onetime secretary of Mr. William Childs. They were but recently married (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). In the background looms the corporate figure of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which is rumored to be the rod and staff of the anti-Childs faction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Childs' War | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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