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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Lovable Character." The next day the tabloids bloomed with cheesecake and photographs, re-enacting the whole affair for posterity. El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair. It was, the management explained, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Night Life of the Gods | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

The Francis H. Burr Scholarship, awarded annually to a senior "who combines the qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and ability, has been split this year between football players Howie Houston (above) and Paul Shafer.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston, Shafer Win Scholarship | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

Most of the credit, probably goes to director William Wellman, for the co-ordination of all the effects that went towards making the sombre atmosphere of guilty killing was letter perfect: The unshaven faces, the drabness of the set at the picture's outset, and the reflection in each character...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

"The inability of the university to secure the services of Professor Glen Shortliffe of Queens University is extremely unfortunate. In the judgment of his colleague in the field of Romance languages, Professor Shortliffe is an excellent teacher, a promising scholar and a man of the finest qualifications of citizenship and...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

With such immemorial tradition began the 555th year of Winchester College, one of Britain's oldest public schools and the prototype of such others as Eton and Harrow. Founded in 1394 by William of Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Desire to Conform | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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