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Harvard was leading 5 to 0 before Pete Brook of the B.L.C., former varsity midfielder, scored at 14:20 of the first half. Brook scored two more goals, both unassisted, in the fourth quarter, to lead his team's scoring...

Author: By Walter W. Bregman, | Title: Reserves Falter But Crimson Ten Defeats BLC 12-7 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Lest the colonel be disillusioned, the British press tried to find nice things to say about the ancient foe. Lord Beaver-brook's Evening Standard even detected a trace of the secret Anglophile in the colonel. "All his life," noted the paper's "Londoner's Diary," "he has had his clothes built in Savile Row, as also did his father. When he has been unable to come to London, a Chicago tailor has taken the colonel's measurements and sent them to London." The Standard also pointed out that by buying with dollars in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mellowed Colonel | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp, 'Go on without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great!" they tell their parents. "We waded for miles in the brook and hit Mr. Cochran right in the face with a tomato and put rocks in his pack till he could hardly walk . . . Boy, we had a keen time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something for the Boys | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...spokesman for the Planning Commission said authorities have already begun negotiating for lands to be used for the proposed surface lines. He added that Metropolitan District Commission land west of the Alewife Brook Parkway has been reserved for a transit terminal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MTA Plans Vast Subway Building Near Harvard Sq. | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

...Producer Brook asked her to come and see him. He gravely explained to the child -who, nevertheless, looked considerably older than her 14 years-that what he was really after was an experienced actress who might possibly pass for the age of Shakespeare's Juliet.* He now admits: "Little did I realize I was talking to exactly the girl I wanted, but just a few years too early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: She Knew What She Wanted | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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