Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Eve many years ago Scrooge promised the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that he would live in the Past, the Present, and the Future-and not shut out the lessons that they teach...
Fatter Scores. The New York Sun's enterprising sport editor looked up Ivy League football scores of 20 years ago, and matching them against 1948's, discovered that they had jumped 75%. Football's controversial free-substitution rule, allowing coaches to march armies of offensive & defensive specialists in & out at will, had put touchdown-making on a production line (TIME, Nov. 22). Everyone agreed that the rule favored teams with manpower, and took the game away from all-round stars. But there seemed to be little chance of a change in the rules...
Worried Times Publisher Norman Chandler had already hustled his brother Philip over to the Mirror as general manager, though Virgil Pinkley was still publisher. A week ago Chandler enlisted Times City Editor Hugh Lewis to prescribe a tonic for the Mirror...
...Three weeks ago, following a "small stroke," 68-year-old H. L. Mencken was admitted to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Last week the hospital reported "slow improvement...
Just ten years ago, Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...