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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copenhagen and, again, London. Along the way she was able to find time for visits at TIME'S European bureaus, where she picked up her mail from home, parked extra luggage and got knowing advice about where & how to travel. Her experiences ranged all the way from a climb up Mont Chevalier to a glimpse of the royal family in London. "It was," she says, "worth every cent...
...although he was pessimistic. He threw a scare into the Senators by declaring that the Russian MIG-15 (powered, like the Navy's Panther and other fighter craft, with a redesigned Rolls-Royce Nene engine) is "superior to any jet engine that we have today" in "speed and climb and operations at altitude...
Yale is also a custodian of another sort. It was not even a university officially until 1887-eleven years after Baltimore's Johns Hopkins began as a model. It did not bother with a full-fledged engineering school until 1932-36 years after Columbia. It did not climb aboard the "elective" bandwagon until Harvard had tried the experiment for 20 years, or build its residential colleges until 1933, when Harvard's houses were already three years old. Even its fraternities were never cast from the campus wholesale, as were those at Princeton under President Woodrow Wilson, though most...
Porter's Apprentice. Weinberg started his climb to the top when he was ten years old. One of eleven children of a Brooklyn furrier, he went to work selling papers, soon became a "flower & feather horse," i.e., a delivery boy for women's hats. He went to Wall Street during the 1907 Panic, earned $5 a day for saving places in lines outside banks that depositors thought would fail. Then he got a job ("assistant to the porter") with Goldman, Sachs...
Drops in football receipts were a major factor in causing athletic deficits to climb an estimated 209 percent during the year 1950-51, the Crimson learned yesterday. Next year they are expected to jump an additional 68 percent...