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...contest Saturday proved to be a team victory that hoisted the present Harvard eleven onto a level with the powerful 1931 team that ploughed through Army, Texas, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and a trio of breathers, losing only to Yale 3 to 0 on a field goal by Albie Booth...
This week Poet Laureate John Masefield honored Against the Storm by taking part in it. Short-waved in from London, he responded to a greeting by the program's fictional professor, greeted his old American friend, Billy Booth (TIME, Aug. 11), and read some poems...
...member invested $25; first season's take was $15 apiece. The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language." In 1865 the orchestra raised some eyebrows by hiring a conductor, Karl Bergmann, at the whopping salary of $1,000 a year. When Edwin Booth declaimed with the Philharmonic (in Schumann's Manfred), the musicians gave him a silver vase; the actor countered by presenting Conductor Bergmann with an aluminum baton (then more costly than silver) from Tiffany...
Handicap. In Englewood, N.J., 6 ft. 5 in. Harold Abrams drew protests as Democratic county committeeman. Complaint: he could peek over the voting booth curtains...
...family jokes, family stories and the intramural mores of Father, Mother, Grandma and eight little Partridges from the time the youngest was born until the last has left the upstate New York nest. As bucolic Americana it is superb. As a picture of boys' life, it is what Booth Tarkington's Penrod is supposed to be and for many people...