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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange place names don't pop up, as the news shifts around from earthquakes in the Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners. It's a tough job. For example, one Siamese name, recently added to the files, was transliterated seven different ways by various news sources-and more than half of the folders in our files (there are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Reynolds, who held the post of Brigadier General as Chief of the Medical Supply Service, U. S. Army, during the war, last March was appointed Administrative Vice-President of the University, a position newly-created at that time to assist President Conant in supervising the business and "housekeeping" details of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vice-President of University Named Head of Committee For Study of Atomic Energy | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

...seen 60% of the zone's heavy industry, "speaking in terms of value," and had found it reasonably intact. He had received assurances from the Soviet Commander, Colonel General Ivan M. Chistiakov, that Moscow policy opposed withdrawal of factory equipment from North Korea. "General Chistiakov did everything . . . to assist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: News from Never-Never Land | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Delayed Threat. Quezon's The Good Fight was ready to be published in October 1944-but was delayed because of the protests of Sergio Osmeña, who became President on Quezon's death. Osmeña protested that its publication might "assist" the Jap war effort or cause "unrest" among the Filipinos. Some of Quezon's friends have seen political motives in this attitude, noting that while The Good Fight speaks in generally friendly terms of Osmeña, it gives higher praise to Manuel Roxas, Osmeña's victorious rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Boy from Baler | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Athletics for each of the six houses (Eliot House will not be open to students until the fall term) as well as Dudley, college center for commuting students, will be managed by a House athletic secretary and an assistant secretary. Samborski announced that a supervisor would be on hand at Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock on June 24 to assist all men who wish to enter the summer program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Competitions Will Begin Next Week | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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