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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tribute. In Sydney, Australia, copper nameplates in the Old Commodore Hotel's bar marked the spot where Customers Roly Collins and Stan Warren had drunk 7,000 gallons of beer since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...tough their own comp was, editors often try to sabotage the candidates by making it easier for them. The candidates often fight back in increased effort and hard work, making for occasional jovial tension. But tension draws the wire finer, according to an old CRIMSON proverb on the Great Beer Mug, and makes for finer editors...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Tough Crimson Competition Chisels Candidate into Experienced Editor | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...they and their wives would find that there was a dance in the hotel the same evening. Since farmers are allowed a gas ration for agricultural errands, many a car parked outside a roadside pub has a trailer holding a bewildered sheep or pig. If the owner, inside drinking beer and playing darts, is challenged by the police, he says that he has just broken his necessary journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: How Basic Is Basic? | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink soda water and beer to the pilots. In restaurants, of all places, they found red tape as endless as spaghetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Russian Journal | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...thought as he marked up his calender. He circled two dates and ran an exclamation point down through his last exam. Looked at one reading list, but don't even remember where I put it. Vag pecked underneath his blotter and back of the beer cans on the window still. Have to go farther back than that, Vag mused, and started looking through his desk. Going to be one of those long nights again. Reading lists for Reading Period, went the phrase, but it still, wasn't too late if he hurried. He looked again and found them tucked inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

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