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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typewriter and a Mimeograph stencil. Then he began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale ... It took us some time to hunt them all up for the place was literally bulging with machines, fact is I didnt know there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Malcolm H. Holmes, band director, explained his earlier decision by saying, "I'm getting too old to die for dear old Harvard in a riot," but undergraduate and alumni pressure at both Harvard and Dartmouth have brought about a change in band policy. Homes expressed great confidence in McCarter's letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Invades Quietly | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...Dear Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Mails Out Sticker Pennants Gratis to Urchins | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...Dear Time-Reader

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Dear me!" exclaims the archdeacon, and well he may. He has just been informed that the Holy Grail, the very chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper, sits at that very moment in his own parish church at Fardles. The archdeacon rushes home and hides the battered old cup in a cupboard, but almost before he can say Sanctus he is conked cold, and the Grail is hijacked by one of the Devil's disciples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Grail | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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