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The Benglas after winning three games in a row, have dropped five successive contests, none of them by more than eight points. Rutgers nosed out the Nassan team by a single point while Army won 28-26.

Author: By Basketball Editor, Robert H. Mcbaride, and The DAILY Princetonian, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Despite Defeats Princeton Hopes For Victory Tomorrow | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

In 1928 dapper, long-nosed, quick-moving little Ravel visited the U. S. to conduct some of his own compositions with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony and other U. S. orchestras. Shy, almost hysterically affable as a conductor, he seemed continuously surprised and pleased that his music sounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Ravel | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Last week's blackface Otello, veteran Giovanni Martinelli, could have won his audience without the smash-clapping and howling of the inevitable claque. Elisabeth Rethberg (Desdemona) substituted massively for Eide Norena, who was ill. Long-legged, snub-nosed Lawrence Tibbett (lago) acted so enthusiastically he almost made a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

In the Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chinese Coverage | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Last week a somewhat showy light in the East appeared for U. S. artists who would like to do serious illustrations for good books. Foregathered for a grand dinner in the Jade Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists & Books | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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