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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson victory over Yale in a five-way ski meet was the biggest news to come out of Lyndonville, Vermont, last weekend. It was no surprise that MIT's team of Norwegian exchange students took first place or that Williams and Norwich ended up fourth and fifth respectively...
Overcoming All. What Queen Mary and so many other visitors admired last week was the new National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, the biggest collection of sporting art in the world. The collection, half a million pounds' worth of paintings and prints, and the ?400,000 mansion (renamed Hutchinson House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely...
...York Daily News had good reason to sniff a new trend; its massive circulation was slipping a bit. The News was still the biggest U.S. paper (2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday). But some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search...
...been a dean at the State University of Iowa, wartime head (lieutenant commander) of the Bureau of Naval Personnel's educational services section, and part-time University of Chicago professor. Last week, subject to the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, Harry Truman gave him his biggest title yet: U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...Roebuck & Co., an employee gives workers the latest market price of the company's stock three times a day. Employees follow the ups & downs of the stock as eagerly as they follow prizefights or baseball games. There is a good reason for their interest: Sears workers own the biggest block of Sears stock...