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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honky-Tonk. Last week Cullman announced that the first $25,000,000 airport development issue would be floated early next year. No airport, he estimates, can count on more than 30% of its income from airline operations. To make the ports pay, Cullman will "put them squarely into the honky-tonk business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Out of the Stack | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Western Reserve of Ohio, Princeton, Fordham and Lehigh are recent Rutgers victims. The Scarlet had an easy time in each of these contests but the Princeton clash, which was won only by a 13 to 7 count...

Author: By Joseph BUNYAN (sports and Rutgers Targum), S | Title: Rutgers Battles Today with 1946's Aces: Passer Burns, Dancer Grimes | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

Died. H. Estelle Rornaine Manville, 73, socialite widow of Asbestos King H. Edward Manville; following a brain operation; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Widow Manville, enormously proud of daughter Estelle, who married the King of Sweden's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, was not at all proud of nephew Tommy Manville, who was having wife-trouble as usual last week (with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...cannot be denied that some nonacademic presidents have made decided successes. . . . But... I wonder whether the present trend in our universities . . . may not be responsible for the fact that we can today count our outstanding presidents on the fingers of one hand. ... I should place educational leadership ahead of mere administrative ability; the latter can be secured, it can be bought. The former is far rarer. . . . What reason have we to anticipate that men whose aim has been the winning of elections, or increasing the earnings of their stockholders, or even defeating the enemy in a series of bloody battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No More Generals, Please | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Immediately after the final count was in at nine o'clock. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 announced that he would pass the results along to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports with his recommendation that the new plan be put into effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavy College Vote Favors Women in Cheering Section | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

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