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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the traditional time lag, basketball's nation-wide growth the popularity are finally being reflected at Harvard. The latest in a series of moves designed to build New England's own game into the College's third-ranking major sport came last week with Coach Bill Barclay's announcement that basketball's first spring practice would begin shortly after the season's close. These sessions will be by invitation only, to compete as little as possible with the spring talent search conducted by Harlow and the spring sports. None the less, they were hailed by Barclay as a welcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/19/1947 | See Source »

...They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

Rooney announced that he would build a row of "cheap but durable" houses on the land. The Woodring porch would command a view of their back yards, and little else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Nice at a Price | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

General Motors was one of the first to read the signs. It closed its Santiago agency (except for the spare parts department) and canceled plans to build an assembly plant there. Ford officials in the U.S. also admitted that they were unable to get back funds and profits blocked in Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Dollars to Peanuts | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...George Fred Keck, who thinks each generation should have a chance to decide whether it wants to live in caves or in skyscrapers, reached back 96 years for support from The House of the Seven Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 70 Against the World | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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