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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March of Science. In Bar Harbor, Me., Dr. Clarence C. Little proudly announced that he had developed a strain of neurotic mice "so afraid of women that they will jump on a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...chances of war with Russia? "Not now, that's certain. She's not ready." What would he do before he assumed his duties as president of Columbia University? Ike laughed. His ideas were like those of General Brehon Somervell, he said: "Find a cottage with a rocking chair on the porch and sit there for six weeks or so. After that I'll begin to rock-slowly." (Actually, Ike is going to write his war memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Ike Says Goodbye | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Weld declined to comment on the HYD document, but said that Robert K. Bingham '48 would chair the Council subcommittee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYD Appeals For Lifting of 'Student' Ban | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

...produced some catchy tunes. Dan Dailey can sing and dance. Jeanne Crain is very pretty. After this much has been osmosed, the fan with the higher IQ begins to squirm a little in his chair, because "You Were Meant For Me" skips and chirps its several reels with a little less than a plot...

Author: By L. Od, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

Councilman John K. Lally '49 informs the other members re failure to obtain sufficient parkees to open the across river parking lot. An eager voice arises from a slouched figure that is all but hidden in a large leather upholstered chair; closer examinations discloses the voice as that of David C. Poskanzer '50: "I suggest we have the Cambridge police tow in about 200 cars some night and then we'll be able to fill up the parking lot the next day." He laughs wholeheartedly; other Council members laugh halfheartedly. Says Weld...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: Within the Council's Smoky Chambers | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

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