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Samuel Eliot Morison, professor of History, announced last night as chairman of the Committee on Arms, Seals, Diplomas, etc. that beginning with the Commencement Exercises of 1938 the official bachelor's gown would be of the short, low-necked type rather than the longer, high-necked style characteristic of recent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACHELOR GOWNS WILL BE CHANGED FOR 1938 | 3/24/1937 | See Source »

The chief did not know that the egg was thousands of years old, that heavy rains had washed it out of a protecting alluvial deposit, but he did suspect that the white men in the town of Ambovombe might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elephantine Egg | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

A scarlet evening gown, high-necked in front, sleeveless and backless was completed by the Paris House of Worth last week to the exact measurements of Mrs. Simpson, rushed to Madame Tussaud's waxworks, London. There dextrous British Mr. John Theodore Tussaud, great-grandson of the original French Madame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scarlet Simpson | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Hailed before NLRB as a sample Rand-Bergoff employe was hog-necked, 260 lb., Sam Harris, better known as "Chowder-head" Cohen. A ubiquitous character whose appearance and language have made him the delight of the Press, he waddled into the news last winter as boss "fink" in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rand, Bergoff & Chowderhead | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Attached to the neck of a lamb received at Armour & Co.'s packing plant at Omaha last week was a note: "This is Billy; take good care of him." On the back of the note was a picture of Billy and his one-time owner, Marian Leaders, 4, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Marian's Lamb | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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