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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospective freshman oarsmen turned out last night in Newell Boathouse for the opening meeting of the Yardling crew season. "It's the smallest showing since I've been coach," commented Bill Leavitt, whose last year's freshman crew won all its races except the Yale duel. Practice will begin almost immediately...
...Lonely Hours. The story is told on himself by the ex-President, in his memoirs, which begin in this week's LIFE. The first installment covers Truman's first 18 days in office-a period of historic decisions, wrenching personal adjustments, "unbelievable burdens," and flickering self-doubts for the jaunty little man from Independence, Mo. "The presidency of the U.S. carries with it a responsibility so personal as to be without parallel." writes Harry Truman. "To be President of the U.S. is to be lonely, very lonely at times of great decisions." In the hourglass of history, Harry...
...what flows through it. The effect of the prisoners' release will depend first on whether they get home, and perhaps to a great extent on the stories they tell of others who died or remain behind. The conference's meaning to battle over reunification can perhaps begin to be measured next month at the Geneva conference of foreign ministers of the four Big Powers, who partitioned Germany in the first place and in the end are the only ones who can put it back together again...
...Mexico to begin shooting a film version of James M. Cain's Serenade (about the meteoric career in opera of a farm boy who hits the skids in Mexico and is befriended by a Mexican beauty), badboy Tenor Mario Lanza was on his good behavior as he met the press in San Antonio. He explained that he was enthusiastic about making his first picture in three years: "I don't want to be inactive again. Inactivity breeds inactivity...
Freshman intramural athletics begin tomorrow with a former varsity football manager as the Yardlings contact between the freshman manager and Intramural Director Adolph W. Sawborski '25. The new liaison is Charile Bingham '55, who, in addition to his proctorial duties, will act as special freshman intramural supervisor...