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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital Statistics. Age: 46 (born March 24, 1902 over a general store in Owosso, Mich.) Ancestry: the only child of George Martin Dewey, publisher of the Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE G.O.P.: DEWEY | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Fast Friends. In Toronto, the University of Toronto newspaper reported a local shocker: the parents of a teen-age girl, eavesdropping on daughter's goodnight to her beau, came a-running downstairs when they heard her scream, discovered that the young lovers had got their dental braces tangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...wasn't age: Herbert Orrin Crisler is only 49. But he had coached Wolverine football for ten years, and it looked like a good time to quit. He would stay on as Michigan's athletic director, and he had picked his successor: Benjamin G. (Bennie) Oosterbaan, 47, a Michigan football immortal, three-time All-America end. A native Michigander, hulking, jocular Oosterbaan has been on Michigan's coaching staff ever since he graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fritz Quits | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Never Can Tell shows its age in places, and the dangers of ribbing too many things at once, and a characteristic garrulity. Yet even in last week's not very helpful production, You Never Can Tell is seldom tiresome for long, and is often quite diverting. It shimmers, too, with good nature. Like his contemporary Wilde, and like virtually no one since, Shaw can be sharp without being snide, mischievous without being nasty. Quite soundly Stage Annalist Allardyce Nicoll once dubbed Shaw's type of comedy "purposeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...brains. If humans are destroyed because of their own super-smartness, rats may eventually take their place as the earth's dominant species. They are more adaptable than any other animal, and are somewhat like the primitive, generalized mammals that inherited the earth at the close of the age of reptiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Outlive the Human Race | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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