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Russell, Brew, and Bill Couch were the sparkplugs of the winning eleven while Bill Tyng paced the Leverett squad. Vint Freedley scored the Bunny touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT DOWNS BUNNIES 7-6, FOR FIRST VICTORY | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

...smoldering cigarette on a couch in the 60 Mt. Auburn St. rat-house brought eight pieces of fire apparatus screaming through Saturday night 10 o'clock revelry, only to find that the janitor, Daniel Sheehan, had already extinguished the flicker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Fire Engines Hurry to Douse Blaze on Mt. Auburn | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...orgies between Bill Cunningham and a mythical secretary named Ima Smack that Bill once invented to explain his delay in answering letters. One day a Boston department-store executive gave Bill a life-size wax model of Miss Smack. Bill stretched her out among the littered papers on his couch, with her skirts up and a champagne glass in her hand, horrified an old gentleman who came to see him. Bill tried to explain that Miss Smack was a model, but the old gentleman went away muttering: "Your private life is none of my business, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...great oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that fugue, his eyebrows now white with time, sat brooding in his hideaway, now and then napping on a creaking old black-leather couch. Borah was ready for the fight of his life. The odds were against him but no man could yet say that he had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Last week Pete Couch (who got his start as a railroad fireman), was elected president of Kansas City Southern, now heads both roads and will boss the merged system. Big Brother Harvey (who started out as a railway mail clerk) became board chairman of Louisiana & Arkansas. He also heads the Kansas City Southern board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brothers | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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