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...Defense Attorney Leon Sin clair Jr., 13, who is tall, slender, brown-haired, and the "most avid reader" in his class, he is using our material to prepare a preliminary brief and has set out to get more information. In this quest he is working closely with the "defendant," a twelve-year-old seventh-grader of Italian descent, who has taken his role seriously enough to write to family relatives in Sicily and to Giuliano himself (no reply, as yet). Meanwhile, he is coaching his three witnesses in their testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...basis. The equipment was poor, the auditorium was physically and visually distorting, and the films were usually "tainted" with social criticisms. (The HLU had an actively "radical" reputation which it does not have now.) The audiences were small, and frequently hostile, even when so fine a film as Rene Clair's "A Nous la Liberte" was shown. In this instance, at least, their animosity was easily explainable: coming to see the Clair film, they first had to sit through two suspicious shorts, one on folk-singing, and the other...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Faculty also announced the award of the $200 John Osborne Sargent Prize to James Otis St. Clair '62 of Belmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Bowdoin Prize Winners Named | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...question was how to stop them. Confessed L.I.U.'s famed Coach Clair Bee: "Why should I pay $100 for a scouting report when I know everything there is to be known about them. [They're] terrific." He sent his men into a zone defense, a desperation move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stop St. Louis! | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, 74, Columbia University professor emeritus, dean of U.S. economists, co-founder and longtime research director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (1920-45); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. An authority on business cycles, Dr. Mitchell headed the Hoover Research Committee on Social Trends, later served F.D.R. as a member of the National Planning and National Resources Boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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