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Just don't sing "I'll be home for Christmas" in front of Millsaps College's one man team Bill Stark. "Ah don't know why they don't move Harvard down South so ah kin go home, too," was Stark's latest comment. Kirby "Tha's what ah any, too." Pickle has shown more than an eating interest in salted pretzels lately. He is joined by the muscley T.C.U. guard, H.B. Thomas, in his consumption. Is it the salt or the pretezls of just the idea, fellas...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: Lucky Bag-- | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

...study of twisted personalities, it lacks the depth that would make the killer terrifying, lacks the intensity that would make the imbecile a final agent of horror. Instead, the boy is merely unpleasant, and the whole play dangles uneasily between the stock and the stark. But it dangles with a certain crude fascination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...state (Nov. 6) that the Navy has a total of seventeen (17) four-star admirals. At present I can think of only seven: King, Leahy, Nimitz, Halsey, Ingersoll, Stark and Spruance. Is it I, or your researcher, who is in error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Breathing heavily, his Bible under his arm, Poet John Milton climbed into the bridal bed. He read his "numb and stark" bride, Marie, a few snatches from the Song of Solomon ("How beautiful is my beloved ..."), marked the place with a rose petal, then pushed Marie out of bed to give thanks that the species had been created male and female. When Marie complained that the bridal party had given her a fierce hangover, Mr. Milton lost patience. "Phlegmatic and ungrateful wretch!" he barked. "What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!" Then he booted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epithalamium | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...going to fight you like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in Texas | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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