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Birth of Bedlam. Strong men and weak, good & bad-from Mormon Elder Sam Brannan to Roger Dearborn Lapham-have tried with varying success to run or rob or manage "The City" since it began life as Yerba Buena 112 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...move in the right direction has been made by Lowell House, whose common room remains open for guests until midnight on Saturdays. The ideal extension of this use of common rooms to all Houses and on all nights of the week would rob the rooms of their primordial function as a center for gregarious bachelors. But a rotating system, with the common rooms of each of the seven Houses open in turn until midnight, would provide a satisfactory solution from all angles. From the point of view of co-education, there can be no qualms concerning this proposal. Exactly such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That Curfew Shall Not Ring | 5/28/1946 | See Source »

...Protestants have a long way to go before they can present such a united front. . . . Nothing will so rob Protestantism of its glory as will closed doors and closed minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spadework for Peace | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...what at first looked to be a full dress assault and battery case with intent to rob, Patrick F. Bowditch, of Lowell House, and a friend, Dirck Roosevelt, were haled into a Cambridge district court yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Settlement Reached In Assault & Battery Case | 2/12/1946 | See Source »

Swart, handsome Jim Rob ("Bob") Wills, 40, son of a Texas sharecropping fiddler, has fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strictly by Ear | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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