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Huby Maguire finished first for the Crimson, taking 48th in the meet. Hal Gerry was 52nd, Emil San Soucie 78th, Bruce Phillips 106th, Marsh Childs 114th, Frank Nahigian 129th, and Bill ngs, seventh Harvard finisher, 153rd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Are 15th Out of 23 ICAAAA Entrants | 11/18/1952 | See Source »

...from the enthusiastic public acceptance of jazz. Whatever the reasons, it is still Armstrong who gets thousands for appearances at the vast showplaces and theatres, while Bechet plays at the far smaller Storyville, in the Hotel Buckminster at Kenmore Square, and in tiny Jimmy Ryan's, the only remaining "52nd Street dive" in New York. And Bechet's superb records are made for Bluenote, a specialized small company which neither advertises heavily nor licenses its records for broadcast...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: The Jazzgoer | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...moments one morning last week, Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin acted like the man who was all prepared to deliver the Administration's Sunday punch at Joe McCarthy. Scowling grimly into the microphone, he launched into a 30-minute speech before 12,000 delegates to the 52nd national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, meeting in Manhattan's Astor Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Punch & Counterpunch | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Bette Davis turned in early at a country hotel, with orders that she was not to be disturbed. In Hollywood, the whole show was as formalized as a high-school commencement. The main actors of Academy Award night were gathered in a smoky nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street. There, Nominee José Ferrer was host at a party to celebrate the 52nd birthday of Nominee Gloria Swanson, his co-star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Crouching spraddle-legged on the parking strips at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., a line of sleek, grey jet planes with round plastic noses waits day & night for the summons to take the air. They are "all-weather interceptors" (Lockheed F-94s of the 52nd Fighter All-Weather Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Interceptor Mission | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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