Word: ago
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
...most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General Tom Clark who boasted a fortnight ago that "under President Truman more topnotch Communists have been convicted than during our entire history...
...story that Witness Oppenheimer had called a "complete fabrication" when the Washington Times-Herald printed it two years ago. Last week he admitted that it was true: in 1937 Frank and Jacquinette, naively looking for a cure for the world's woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
Where 70 years ago Radcliffe women were lectured to by Harvard Professors in Radcliffe's Founders House, they now attend Harvard lectures in Harvard classrooms. The picture at the top of the page is of a class in Psychology 7; there is more than a smattering of women...
...Harvard and Radcliffe communities began more and more to overlap extracurricular activities were forced to take cognizance of the courtship. Two years ago the CRIMSON appointed its first Radcliffe Correspondent, Joan McPartlin '49, shown at left with Crime president John G. Simon...