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Street (B) defeated Henry Foster, 15-8, 9-15, 15-4, 11-15, 18-17; Nawn defeated McKittrick (B), 15-11, 15-11, 15-8; Thompson (B) defeated Hugh Foster, 15-10, 15-7, 15-9; Bowen (B) defeated Joe Clark, 10-15, 15-10, 15-12; Jim Bacon defeated Wightman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Champs Top Squash Team | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

When this spooky little novel appeared in England last year, it threw the critics into a tizzy. Elizabeth Bowen wrote: "This book, read in two hours, haunts me"-but she could not say why. Sean O'Faolain said: "It shakes the tapestry of life like a night-wind," but admitted he was "not quite sure what it is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gothic Tale | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...statism could be like. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination of urgent theme and ideal writer that found adequate recognition. The Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen was at her best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Bakey (U) defeated Foster (H)--15-5, 15-10, 15-13; Nawn (H) defeted Bowen (U)--17-16, 15-12, 18-15; Whitman (U) defeated Bacon (H)--17-16, 15-10, 15-7; McKittrick (U) defeated Flagg (H)--15-11, 15-10, 15-7; Powell (U) defeated Harding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boat Club Downs Squash Team, 4-1 | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...world's most troublesome piece of glass, the 200-in. mirror of Palomar's Hale telescope, is back in shape again. Observatory Director Dr. Ira S. Bowen announced last week that the mirror, which was taken out for repolishing last May, has been tested on the stars and pronounced O.K. In places as much as 20 millionths of an inch of glass was polished off. Next step will be to cover the mirror with its shining coat of aluminum. Dr. Bowen hopes the big telescope will be hunting nebulae again by the first of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exacting Mirror | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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