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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The lightweight varsity also outdistanced M. I. T's crew by six lengths at the finish, while the second 150's left Tech three lengths astern in an extracup race. All of the races were rowed over the Henley course on the Charles River Basin.

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Outclass Rutgers, Tech, B.U.; Batsmen Take Third Straight Victory at Penn | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

> Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, refused to tell the press why he had come home, promised to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. Grim in public, Col. Lindbergh was smiling among friends when a newscameraman pushed into his cabin to snap him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Actions & Reactions | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Just turned 77, hale again after his first absence (six weeks) because of illness in nine years, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week returned to the U. S. Supreme Court. For his first chore he had the pleasant duty of swearing in the Court's newest and youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Douglas In, Streaker In | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Alexis Carrel, 65. Most famed of the five, bald, poetic Dr. Carrel won the 1912 Nobel Prize for his remarkable success in suturing blood vessels and transplanting organs. For 27 years he has kept a scrap of chicken heart alive and growing. Every few days the heart has to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rockefeller Retirements | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Birthday. Charles Chaplin, cinemactor. Age: 50. Greetings: from 37 Russian cinema directors, who cabled Mr. Chaplin their appreciation especially of his films Modern Times and City Lights.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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