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Therefore it is good to hear that the Salzburg Seminar is going to try and keep up its full educational program this summer, including the despatch of American students to help with the important job of explaining America to the Europeans. This work is probably more important now than it has over been before in the four years of the Seminar's operation; judging by reports coming out of Europe, U.S. actions are badly in need of clarification there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom and the Undergraduate | 2/6/1951 | See Source »

...Union, eager to have Hägg match strides with Super-Runner Gregory Rice in the national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Visiting Fireman | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...subtly. The other is the villain who covets Hall's throne as well as his betrothed. After an education in this institution, Hall finds life among his people a little perplexing and a lot more virile than he had become accustomed to, However, he thrashes the villain with proper despatch, handles the love scenes quite well, and at last sees the villain consumed in molten lava while he and his bride stand ready for the final clinch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/14/1941 | See Source »

...year of Antioch College, went to the University of Minnesota (but did not graduate), got a job on the Minneapolis Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch and Pioneer Press, he began writing politics, fathered three children, was an active Newspaper Guildsman (but dropped out in disgust two years ago), became Governor Stassen's confidential political adviser and close friend during the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA: New Senator | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...pride of the Nazi merchant marine which did not escape or scuttle was the 13,615-ton liner Cap Norte. Last week she arrived in English waters from the South Atlantic under a British prize crew. Another, the Düsseldorf, captured off Chile by the British cruiser Despatch, last week prepared to transit the Panama Canal under a prize crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Price of Sanctuary | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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