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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actual donations will be made during the week of Dec. 3, when the Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Memorial Hall. Any student who wishes to pledge a pint of blood but has not yet done so is urged to sign up at Phillips Brooks House as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Pledges Increase Over 1955; PBH Predicts Total of 1500 Pints | 11/2/1956 | See Source »

Quietly, two stewardesses and a purser went to work, pointed out the escape hatches, explained the ditching procedure (fasten safety belts securely, rest head on pillow on the knees, cross wrists behind legs, grasp each ankle from the front). Passengers discarded their shoes (the women took off stockings so they would not slip if they had to walk on a wing), got rid of sharp objects (e.g., fountain pens, tie clasps), shouldered their way into life jackets. One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Ditching | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...MEMOIRS OF A CROSS-EYED MAN, by James Wellard (246 pp.; St. Martin's Press: $3). Hulking British Schoolmaster Thomas Ashe was a flop as a ladies' man, and knew it. His nose was bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Comparative scores do little toward establishing a favorite. The Indians beat New Hampshire 13 to 0, and Brown 14 to 7, and tied Holy Cross 7 to 7, but they were upset by Penn 14 to 7. Since Brown beat Columbia, and the Lions beat Harvard, one might conclude that Dartmouth rated an edge. But one might also note that the Crimson is back on its every-other-game schedule of two years ago when the varsity lost to a weak local team, upset Cornell, lost to Columbia, and then beat the Indians. Perhaps the safest thing that...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Crimson Meets Big Green in Stadium Today With Neither Eleven Rated a Solid Favorite | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

Haunted by the spectre of four straight defeats by Dartmouth's Captain Doug Brew, Pete Reider took his revenge spectacularly yesterday afternoon, as he whipped Brew and smashed all previous records for the Franklin Park Course. The varsity cross country won the meet and their eighteenth consecutive victory by the lopsided score...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Reider Sets Mark as Harriers Triumph | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

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