Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman tennis team will play its last match of the year today on the Soldiers Field courts. The match, which is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., will be against the Dartmouth freshmen...
...Army & Navy, Johnson decided, had pussyfooted; he ordered the admirals and generals to give him "additional clarifying information" about their programs. The Air Force came off better. As a first step, the Air Force said that within ten days it would begin disbanding its all-Negro 332 Fighter Wing at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Ohio. By the end of the year its 2,000 men would be sprinkled through the Air Force; other Negro units in the Air Force, but not all of them, would be broken up in the same...
Last week, the commission, chairmanned by Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc.,† told where it hoped to begin. From its headquarters in Manhattan, it will send out investigators for pilot studies of just what community groups are doing to improve their schools. It will also act as a clearinghouse for good & bad news about U.S. public education, citing local groups for a good job wherever possible, and spotlighting problem areas. To make sure that the commission stays above all special interests, it will accept only members "not professionally identified with education, religion, or politics." As the commission...
...There are always two kinds of paintings," Matisse went on. "First there is the kind that introduces something new. Such paintings begin by being worthless but eventually they ascend the heights of value. Then there are those which are accepted at the outset because they offer nothing new but simply flatter the public taste. They are later found to be worthless...
...squad will break up tomorrow to begin a series between the Carduffs and the Hickeys. The team which wins three games will receive an undisclosed reward at the expense of the losers...