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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical, Hold Everything, based on the million-dollar fight racket which Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney had so magically inspired. They had some nice tunes by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson: You're the Cream in My Coffee, Don't Hold Everything. They had Betty Compton. They had Victor Moore. They had a part for Lahr - a punch-drunk fighter named Gink Schiner. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: $6.60 Comedian | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

These meetings brought leading speakers to Cambridge including Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., Jacques Maritain and Hu Shih, both of Princeton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '24, and Manly Fleischmann '29, director of the Defense Production Administration...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Commencement, School Fill Summer; Wilson, Austin, Wilder Get Degrees | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

These meetings brought leading speakers to Cambridge including Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., Jacques Maritain and Hu Shih, both of Princeton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '24, and Manly Fleischmann '29, director of the Defense Production Administration...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Commencement, School Fill Summer; Wilson, Austin, Wilder Get Degrees | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...faltering in the Compton Cup race (loss to Princeton) and the Eastern sprint championships (second to Yale, easy conquest of Princeton), the Crimson crew displayed none of the exceptionally fine form it had shown in practice timings. The oarsmen lived up to their promise by upsetting Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup (Harvard's tenth straight) and later by breaking the two-mile record on Lake Cayuga...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin. jr., | Title: Record Proves Harvard Sports 'Decline' a Myth | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

...five: Chairman James W. Wadsworth, onetime New York Republican Congressman; M.I.T. ex-president Dr. Karl T. Compton; former Under Secretary of State William L. Clayton; retired Admiral Thomas Kincaid; Lieut. General R. S. McLain, onetime banker (Oklahoma City) and only National Guard officer to command a combat corps in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Design -for Cooler Days | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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