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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rooms of the residents of Radcliffe's Eliot Hall were searched yesterday in an attempt to discover the whereabouts of clothing -- mostly undergarments -- and personal belongings that have been reported missing in the past few days.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles Missing From Cliffe Dorm | 5/15/1953 | See Source »

His warning comes true one late autumn day, when a pathological killer gets loose in Middenshot. With balmy cunning, Herbert lures him and a Middenshot rapist to the coal shed on the pretext of helping them evade the police, and shoots a hypodermic of hydrocyanic acid into each. Before anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harmless Herbert | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Because her department is newest in the Cabinet, Secretary Hobby must walk at the end of all official Cabinet processions, yet her Department of Health, Education and Welfare is bigger in budget terms ($1.7 billion in fiscal 1953) than all other Cabinet departments, save Defense and Treasury. She must fend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lady in Command | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Attendants immediately blocked off all exits and tried to discover which of the museum's collection of valuable ancient vases had been thrown from the balcony of the court.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frolicsome Fools Fool Fogg, Pulverizing Piece of Pottery | 4/28/1953 | See Source »

The Army engineers bucked the problem to outgoing Army Secretary Frank Pace, who bucked it to Eisenhower's new Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck, who shuttled it upstairs to Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, who took it to a Cabinet meeting. Irritated to discover that he was hemmed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Low Bid, No Bid | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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