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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Bill Shallow is a safe bet in the hammer, Indians Jim parks and Jack Stewart are favored in the discus and javelin, with Doc Wharton a serious threat in the latter...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Harvard, Dartmouth Clash on Track | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week the French version, Blanche Neige et Les SeptNains, was released in Manhattan. In French, Snow White's friends are called Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey), Prof (Doc), Joyeux (Happy), Timide (Bashful), Atchoum (Sneezy) and Dormeur (Sleepy). When the little men perform their reluctant ablutions at Snow White's housewifely behest, the words "BLUDDLE UM DUM" are dubbed in-which is eloquent soapiness in any language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snovit & the Seven Polyglots | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...rest of the loop teams that they were through being used as doormats by registering a 6 to 3 victory over the Big Red of Cornell in their first League clash. While the Ithacans aren't exactly world-beaters yet, they aren't rated as pushovers either. Coach Doc Cariss and his boys received a 8 to 2 set-back at the hands of the Dartmouth Indians last Thursday, but this was to be expected because the defending champion Indians have class-aplenty on their mound staff...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Yale, Princeton Appear Strong As EIL Loop Gets Under Way | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

First warning of more serious effects came from Dr. Edwin E. Ziegler, pathologist of the U. S. Public Health Service, who reported that goldfish might contain tapeworms which, lodging in the intestinal tract, would give swallowers anemia. Nevertheless, collegiate swallowing continued.* Gordon ("Doc") Southworth, of Massachusetts' Middlesex University's School of Veterinary Medicine, stationed himself beside Soldiers Monument on Waltham Common with a pail of goldfish, in 14 minutes swallowed 67. At University of Missouri Marie Hansen became the first co-ed to swallow a goldfish. Champion at week's end: Clark University's Joseph Deliberato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Died. Edward W. ("Doc") Smithers, 69, chief White House telegrapher; of heart disease ; in Washington. Telegrapher Smithers started under McKinley in 1898. In 1909 President Taft gave Doc Smithers the gold telegraph key used ever since by Presidents to open bridges, dams, highways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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