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...magnetic power his friends never knew he had, Jock Peterson lured a beautiful creature all the way from California, and to Cambridge at that. Jean Allen and said Ensign were wed in the Chapel next door to the place he spends his weeks. He realized what he had gotten into on Monday afternoon when, on coming out of the basement of the President's house, he was cautioned to "Stop waving those bills around that...

Author: By Ens. STIMSON Bullitt, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

...Jacobson and Frank Billings bought a $500 7-passenger Packard sedan with 16 cylinders one day and decided next morning that they should have gotten a convertible instead. So they sawed...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...Texans nearly ruined one of the reviews once. They couldn't march without swaying from side to side on their parenthetical legs, but we'd have gotten by except that one of them thought the uniform of the day should include chaps. At that, we were lucky. His original idea was to lead the platoon on his boss...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE M. avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Cozy Corner | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...couple of student songs for Tannenbaum College (of this institution of learning, Ruby characteristically notes: "A feudal Icrd scattering largess among the peasants as he rides through the village in a coach-and-four is a philanthropist. The fact that the peasants are the source of his ill-gotten wealth makes no difference; he is a philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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