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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...married for the second time. The old Thayer house at 5 Philips Place has become even more a meeting place of nations than the UN in recent years, as students from 58 countries gather nightly in its Colonial-style rooms to sip tea, meet new friends, and carry on bull sessions in an atmosphere many degrees more cordial than that at lake Success. Now known as the International Student Center, the pillared, yellow-clapboard house near Radcliffe yard echoed to the first of many non-New England accents in 1941 and became an unofficial consulate that has since eased many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

Mexican beisbol ended its disastrous 1947 season last week. Mexican fans would rather see a bull killed than hear a baseball umpire threatened with death. Experts guessed that Mexico's wealthy Pasquel brothers had lost 750,000 pesos (about $150,000) this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beisbol, Phooey! | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...National Anthem fared less favorably, however, as Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, wearing civilian togs in the president's box with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., forgot to doff his top-piece...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Sixteen Backs, Confederate Flags, Touchdowns Mar Virginia Episode | 10/14/1947 | See Source »

...seventh day, a game didn't seem official without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nothing Like It | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Thursday afternoon a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students held an informal reception for Robert W. Kenney, the former Attorney General of California. As head of the California Democrats for Wallace, Mr. Kenney is working for the practical achievement of Mr. Wallace's position. The reception ended as a "bull session" on the prospects for progressive political activity in America, especially among students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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