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...troubles with Harvard. Once, he arrived in the middle of a Square riot. Realizing that this was a good chance for publicity, he had his eyes blackened with charcoal by a student. Then he called over photographers from the press wire services and showed them his "eyes which were blackend by a Harvard student." The following day newspapers throughout the nation picked up the picture of Mickey Sullivan with "the blackeyes which rioting Harvard students inflicted...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Town-Gown War End Sees Harvard . . . . . . Cambridge Friends | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

Heavy rains came down upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Toward the Last Battle | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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