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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Wednesday the American press reported a 54-page statement by the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association. The statement, "American Education and International Tensions," was made by "20 of the nation's top educators." The newspaper stories shocked a few people, surprised a lot more. Among those both shocked and surprised were "20 of the nation's top educators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 20's Mistake | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

Swimming--men who get 10 points in Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming receive major H's. Relay points are divided among members of relay teams. Also major H's to men who win Ivy League Championships, place in nationals meets, equal or break Harvard records, and to all men who place on a League Championship team. Double credit for Yale meets...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Bingham Overhauls Athletic Award Program | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...deals with this lonely hunt, and also with teh tight complex tensions which are released in the Bridges family by the death of the first son. The third and youngest son is left at the ranch to cope with the messy psychological situation created by his brother's death, among his sister, his parents, and his fiancee. By exercising fantastic self-control, he keeps the tensions in hand msot of the time, but just barely...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmean, | Title: Clark's Third Novel: Lonelinesss, Cold, and Terror in the West | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...security actually required speed. He ahs ignored Lilientnal's request that names of accused workers be kept from the public by so explicitly describing one atomic scientist that his colleagues could not fail to know him. This sort of thing can only arouse suspicion and further depress morale among already harried AEC personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Servant | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smothered Incident | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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