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...ineligible by Ivy League officials. Also returning is fireman Ira Godin, who started or came in to save many a game for the 1947 Crimson squad, and Landon Clay. Receivers for these moundsmen will be at a premium--at least ones as good as the graduated Bill Hamlen--but Cliff Crosby and Web Durant are attempting to fill the bill...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

...encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb up a precipitous Red Sea cliff, he discovers what he is looking for, a freshly harvested poppy field disguised as a rose plantation. And from there he follows the raw opium across the Atlantic, finally closing in on the whole racket in a tense battle outside New York harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'To the Ends of the Earth'...Dick Powell Thriller | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

Nobody knows precisely how the practice of jumping began. The most common guess is that somebody (like the individual above) discovered a handsome tow but lost his way on the trip down and hurtled off a convenient cliff...

Author: By Farquahar Schussboomer, | Title: Look Before You Leap | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...crash? The rumbling continued for four days, then some prices firmed up. Experts pondered the reasons for the break (see BUSINESS). They were not sure of what it might bring. They did not, however, believe that it was the beginning of disaster. "We haven't gone over the cliff," said a Washington economist. "We've just hit a bump in the road." Despite the fact they had taken huge paper losses in the last few days, farmers showed no sign of panic. They confidently expected prices to go up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Clink of Pennies | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...sings to the boy, a church choir nearby is chanting words from the Book of Common Prayer; first the soprano's voice, then the choir, fades in & out like music in a radio play. The chorus angrily follows Peter and the boy to his hut atop a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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