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Benjamin Bucklin '42 discovered a new way of settling competition in an affair of the heart yesterday when he placed Samuel Worthen '42 in handcuffs and threw the key under the subway train at Ashmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Wins Girl by Handcuffing Rival and Throwing Key in Subway | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...unscheduled Arab speaker threw into turmoil a meeting called by the Independents to arouse interest in the sending of German Jews to Palestine in Emerson Hall last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arab's Surprise Speech Breaks Up Independents' Jewish Rally | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...used to be said in Dublin that if you threw a stone through a saloon window, you would be sure to hit a poet," James H. Delargy, Director of the Irish Folklore Commission, told a packed audience of Bostonians and Harvard undergraduates in the New Lecture Hall last night. He lectured under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Crowd Hears Delargy Speak of Irish Traditions | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...impatient, so the twentieth was decided upon. Once more procrastination struck, as Dicky, that's John's brother, found he couldn't get down that day because he had to take an entrance exam for Harvard. Cynthia and her mother promptly slated the wedding for the twenty-seventh. John threw a fit, because it seems that the Harvard-Yale boat races are that week-end, and he's never missed once since his graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads. By so doing, he succeeded in making a successful whole; but the makers of "Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start by the presence of Dick Powell, takes itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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