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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only nine lacrosse players, six of them freshman numeral winners last year, and only one a varsity letterman, will attend the annual winter lacrosse forum at Palm Beach, Fla., during winter vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine of Crimson Team To Go to Palm Beach For Lacrosse Forum | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

Fifty years ago today on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilber Wright pioneered in achieving flight with heavier-than-air craft. The associated industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenderg, | Title: Aviation Begins Its 2nd Half-Century | 12/17/1953 | See Source »

...Manhattan that some time before Christmas she would marry Dempsey, 54, "a real he-man." Jack allowed that Estelle ("a wonderful girl") would become his fourth wife. Then Estelle let Jack in on a little surprise: she planned to invite Douglas to visit them during their honeymoon in Palm Beach at Christmastime. It was "only a friendly gesture [to] a nice fellow." In the old-fashioned belief that honeymoons are for two, Dempsey, clutching some candles which had been sent for the wedding, walked out of Estelle's life. Philosophically, Estelle decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...Christmas Rush. In Sunset Beach, Calif., Clothing Manufacturer Fred Gerletti told police that thieves had broken into his factory, stolen 60 new Santa Claus suits worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Drive-ln. In Long Beach, Calif., after steering his car across the beach and into the ocean, Walter Bryant, 27, was booked for drunken "driving, told police: "Just thought I'd catch a few crabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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