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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: Industrialist James Gority, late of Adrian, Michigan, has bequeathed $5,000 to Notre Dame to make available to undergraduates courses in golf and bridge. Mr. Gority considered a knowledge of these games a real asset...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Xavier is taken is a spiritual isolation ward rife with viciousness. There is an ugly, snot-nosed, unwanted boy of nine. There is a vapid secretary-governess who purrs around Xavier like a cat on a hot tiled roof. There is the self-centered stepmother-in-law, a grande dame sans merci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Scourge of Sanctity | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...General Teleradio and new board chairman of RKO Radio Pictures, announced a $15 million deal with C & C Super Corp., which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package may now be rented to TV stations for immediate screening across the nation, with General Teleradio getting exclusive rights to the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Movies to TV | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Those men were the "punch" of the team in 1935 that defeated the University of Virginia. Virginia in those years was the Notre Dame of the college boxing world. That was also the year Lamar coached the Crimson to the Eastern championship and a perfect season...

Author: By Winthrop P. Siuth, | Title: College Boxing Greats Have Gone | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

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