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As the undergraduate settles in his chair, he will hear Faculty members, record programs, mostly classical, concerts, from the Pierian, Glee Club, and Stradivarius Quartet. Argument, with forums. Drama, with radio plays. And sideline, ringside, poolside chatter till his spine prickles.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLASH! | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

For one act, "Margin For Error" rips along and then settles down for a second act of harangue and occasional laughter while the consul's death finds a solution. Spotted here and there with good humor, the play is still far and away beneath. "The Women." The wit is always...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

Yale, the defending champion; princeton, runner-up a year ago, and Harvard, which finished third in 1930, again dominate activities in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League as the association settles down to the major portion of its schedule this week. This trio, annually the Big Three of Eastern swimming, currently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Yale and Princeton Dominate E.I.L. Swimming League; Tied In Lead | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

Biographer Ballou introduces her subject with an overwritten essay, then settles down to a straightforward, less flighty account of Ella's dreamy girlhood in an irritable and defeated Wisconsin farm family, her indefatigable poem writing (sometimes eight a day), her conquering arrival in Milwaukee, her instinctive refusal of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetess of Passion | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Records take a sharp upturn this week, and are much more interesting than they have been in a long while. Leading the list is Earl Hines' "Rosetta," a piano solo cut a few weeks ago on Bluebird with "Glad Rag Doll" on the other side, a solo that he made...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

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