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Aaron is a New England boy, raised in the Berkshires, "not tall nor short, with a brush of chestnut hair, and brown eyes that were serene and markedly friendly, his forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aaron Gadd | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Admiral stay in his stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sound Investment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Anthony J. Sabelli of Chestnut Hill and Providence, R.I.: Photography Editor of the '49 Senior Album; Former Properties Manager for Ivy Films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Like the "veal" on another menu, the "Hungarian goulash" around the corner, the prime roasts and shepherd's pies at still other restaurants, the lady's pate had been, a few days earlier, a long-legged foal romping after a chestnut mother not long retired from a dairy cart. Last week it was still illegal in Britain to kill horses under seven years old for food or serve it in restaurants if other meat was available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tamed to the Palate | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Philadelphia, C. Walten Randall, Jr. '36, 2301 Packard Building, 15th and Chestnut sts,; Harvard Club of Rochester, Treadwell Ruml '39, 1927 Sibley Tower Building; Harvard Club of St. Louis, C. Ford Morrill '34, 1601 Railway Exchange Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Announce Party Schedules | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

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