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Professor John Erskine of Columbia University, who has since come to fame as a novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), was sent to France during the War as education chief for the A. E. F. Early in 1918 he visited the front lines of the French Army. He wrote some sonnets about what he saw and felt. Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tower | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...Cities to hear the Don Cossack Chorus: Troy, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Ann Arbor, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison (Wis.), Pittsburgh, Akron, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Hartford (Conn.), St. George (Staten Island). Baltimore, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like the Movies | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Troy, N. Y., Judge James F. Brearton dismissed a $3,000 damage suit against Jess Miner who squeezed Mrs. Margaret Pooler until he broke two of her ribs. Mrs. Pooler admitted she had not told Jess Miner she minded being squeezed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...give the price of gold as $20.67183462 per five ounces. This is certainly a bad mistake since the price of gold is $20.67-plus per troy ounce and this of course is for pure gold. The settling price for gold by smelters is frequently considerably less due to the fact that pure gold does not exist in nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

Elected to the Lampoon at a meeting last night were William Otis Faxon 2nd, '32, of Rochester, N. Y.: Bruce Wallace Hislop '31, of Troy. N. Y.: Peter Orville Horwitz '33, of Birmingham. Mich.: John Harold Kennard '32, of Newton Centre: John MacLane Murray '33, of Cambridge: Stephen Henry Stackpole '33, of Milton: William Craig Wallace '32, of Cameron. Tex: and David Norton Yerkes '33, of New Haven, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Elections | 10/3/1930 | See Source »

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