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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow, even while recognizing the death of Professor Matthiessen as a discrete and terrible personal tragedy beyond my understanding, I cannot conclude that it had nothing to do with politics. In his last note one finds that same discouragement that is sometimes felt by all of us who are still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthiessen and Politics | 4/12/1950 | See Source »

I Promise You. Meanwhile Jimmy Roosevelt was looking more & more like a pretty shrewd politico. Up & down the San Joaquin Valley he was drawing crowds to the back platform of his shiny new trailer-bus. For his campaign manager Jimmy badly wanted George T. Davis, a smart San Francisco lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Mad Whirl | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Ever since hard-hitting Pancho Gonzales followed Jack Kramer onto the professional trail, U.S. amateur tennis has become an old man's game. Going into the semi-finals of the national indoor tennis championships last week, 31-year-old Billy Talbert, who has won some 20 national titles in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old Men | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Outdoor Smells. Only rarely does Editor Weyer get trapped by a nature faker. Once he printed a letter about a whale swallowing a man, written by "Egerton Y. Davis Jr.," an "eyewitness." A reader hastened to point out that the "eyewitness" was using a pseudonym of the late great physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daffodils & Dinosaurs | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, will conduct a symposium on geomorphology at the annual convention of the Association of American Geographers on April 6 The symposium, to be held at Clark University, will honor the 100th birthday of the founder of the Association, William M. Davis '69, late Sturgis Hooper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geographers Convene For Clark Symposium | 4/1/1950 | See Source »

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