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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut has a habit of turning out fine soccer squads; last year's was champion of the New England League, which is generally recognized as the toughest soccer league in the country. This year, although several of its top stars are gone, Connecticut by comparative scores is about as good as Cornell and Amherst--the two colleges which have boaten the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Plays UConn's Champions Today | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...Navy's Case. Next day, on Capitol Hill, in the full glare of newsreel lights. the Navy at last told what had been gnawing at its heart. Its spokesman was four-star Admiral Radford, the man naval aviators everywhere recognize as their champion, the officer who built the Navy's wartime air arm as director of aviation training, a brilliant fighting commander, and long an outspoken enemy of service unification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Revolt of the Admirals | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...years of reading newspapers and magazines he also collected a fat list of prospects and some dope about them, not all of it straight. He noted that Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, had a 6-oz. gold trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Convict's Dream | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

House football goes into its second round of games at 3:10 p.m. today on Soldiers Field, Winthrop, last week winner over defending champion Kirkland, meets Leverett, while unbeaten Dudley takes on the Deacons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Kirkland Favored In House Grid Games Today | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Winthrop House hammered out a 6 to 0 victory over defending champion Kirkland yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field to open the House football season. Across the sidelines, Dudley dumped an under-manned Dunster team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Upsets Kirkland; Dudley Tops Dunster, 13-7 | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

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