Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training period. Pentagon executives expected that next year's quotas would be even larger. An Army publication pointed out this week, however, that "unless the public relations and recruiting efforts really get rolling this month, the 1956 monthly goal of 6,333 is still far from realistic." At last count, under 3,000 men were in active service...
Wilson said he was "very pleased" with the team's comeback from a ten-point halftime deficit. "You can't count on doing that every game, though," he added...
...John the Founder, if I can do so without en-count-er-ing John the Yardcop...
Actually, The Count At Harvard is an attempt to apply the slick amoralism of the fin de siecle approach to a story about a Harvard man. Roger Norris, alias the "Count," is a suave, charming n'er-do-well who drops Wilde-like epigrams on every possible occasion. He is lightly cynical about everything, except for one brief time when he meets a "good," serious and proper girl. She, however, rejects his suit, because the Count is not a very good security risk. The Count does not let this overly effect him, and returns to his flippant outlook. The most...
...about Harvard were also published in the 30's. Why their authors chose Harvard to be the location of the stories will always be shrouded in mystery. The first of these, Harvard Has A Homicide by Timothy Fuller, was published in 1936. It might well have been called The Count Turned Sleuth At Harvard. Jupiter Jones, the clever-thinking fast-talking, Fine Arts post-graduate, discovers a murdered professor, and pockets one of the clues. After successfully matching wits with the Cambridge police (which at that time seemed to be no very difficult task) he apprehends the murderer. The villain...