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Brill's recently reconnected telephone rang incessantly all morning with pleas from ardent suitresses asking "Lewellyn darling" to tear himself away from his study of Elizabethan music for a few hours in the afternoon.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe, Wellesley Maidens Hunt Men in Leap Year Rites | 3/1/1940 | See Source »

Up to this point there is general agreement among Tom, Jim, and Aubrey. But they don't jibe on the mechanism needed to assure able young people from all economic classes a chance to continue their education. Jefferson thought that having public schools and colleges was enough; President Conant believes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE THREE | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo, before whom they were arraigned, ordered them held for trial on March 6. All 17 had been held in lieu of bonds ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. After pleas had been entered for each, the balls were reduced to sums ranging from $5,000...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher, speaking at a testimonial dinner tendered him here tonight, said that he will accept the pleas of "men and women high in the Republican party" and will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President on a platform pledging preservation of democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 1/17/1940 | See Source »

Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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