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...really much shorter in Siamese" was the modest comment of Kaisui Nimmanahaeminda I G.B., of Chiengmai, Siam, possessor of the longest surname in Harvard University, when questioned about his astounding monicker in his room at the Business School yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nimmanahaeminda Is Longest Harvard Name; Ou, Ku, Wu, Lo Tie for Shortest | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

...ministers. But for men of God there exists no compulsory interneship comparable to that fulfilled by men of medicine. Last week, simultaneously with announcing election of a new dean, the Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans Jr., 46, Wartime chaplain and for the past nine years the successful rector of Trinity parish, Hewlett, L. I., the new plan provides for hospital, social service and prison work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theological Internes | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

received permission from Reza Shah Pahlavi (see p. 20) to build what may turn out to be the world's longest pipe line, through Afghanistan and Iran to the Persian Gulf. In size, if not in richness, Seaboard's new Middle Eastern territories will be superior even to those of Britain's great Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Both the Afghan and Iranian concessions are the outgrowth of conversations in 1933 between Charles Calmer Hart, then U. S. Minister to Iran, and his good friend Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing Secretary of the Treasury. After Mr. Hart resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil Week | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...longest skiing season in New England is at Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. A new ski tow has been installed and open slopes have been cleared on the lower part of the mountain. Chin Clip, Smuggler's Notch, and Nose Dive trails are all expert runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

...winner of the Packers v. Redskins game this week will go the professional championship of the U. S. Among the Packers' stars favored to win it are: Halfback John Blood, whose service record of 13 years is the longest in the League, whose size (6 ft., 190 Ib.) is pygmy compared to a team averaging 20 Ib. more, and whose orangutan arms make him equally dreaded as a pass catcher and a tackler; End Don Hutson, whose 34 catches this season broke the League record; Arnold ("Flash") Herber, whose accuracy has enabled him to throw completed passes totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pay Checks and Packers | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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