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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years Attorney General Tom Clark had given the party on Harry Truman's birthday. This was the biggest one of all. Court Jester George Allen, deep in the Truman doghouse last summer for his pro-Eisenhower antics, was out again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pink Frosting & Champagne | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Italian film, "Revenge," now being shown at the Beacon Hill, is not cut from the same hearty fabric as were its illustrious predecessors from the country. Though it contains in its cast two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Gino Cervi, their talents can do little to redeem a weak and confusing plot, poor photography, a strident musical score, and the general low quality of the film...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Revenge | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Scientists Take Temperatures of Sun's Corona, Yellowstone's Geysers | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...From the biggest astronomical bodies to the smallest--that takes one to the work Professor Fred L. Whipple, who studies the miner bodies of the solar...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Scientists Take Temperatures of Sun's Corona, Yellowstone's Geysers | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

Lowell House revived its pre-war tradition of senior book awards to its top men at High Table last night. In addition, Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23 presented Robert B. Clark '48 with a toy horn as "the man who has incited the biggest and beat riots in the small courtyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Revives Tradition in Handing Out Senior Book Awards | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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