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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crichton's story tells of two boys taking their first Communion, who decide out of curiosity to steal and break the Communal Sacrament. According to a nun's superstition, Christ's blood will flow from the sacrament if it is desecrated. The title was drawn from the Bible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100 Dana Reed Prize Goes To Short Story in Advocate | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...past three days this newspaper has published a series of reports on academic freedom. The reports are condensations from a mass of material--condensations necessitated by the sheer weight of information on the cases investigated. The cases do not run to pattern. Just what conclusions, if any, can be drawn from the cases as a group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Academic Freedom | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

These bills have been drawn up and supported in committee hearings by State Senator Jack B. Tenney of Los Angeles and his committee on un-American activities. Both Tenney and the legislation he is fighting for are the subjects of a stiff controversy throughout the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenney Committee is Storm Center in California Battle | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

Much of the film is a hair-raising chase by night which ends up in a fire-gutted tenement. As the camera stalks hunter & hunted about the shadowy ruins, the suspense is drawn out to a fine edge. An intelligent sound track, all ears, brings it to a razor sharpness. When Bobby is finally cornered on a giant rafter, overhanging the gaping cellar, the rotted wood starts giving way. What follows is a breathless, well-executed collaboration between lens and microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...fiendish field conditions in the first half especially troubled the Varsity, and at the quarter. Springfield held a 2 to 0 lead. But the team caught on, and by the half had drawn up to even the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-lb. Crew Finishes Third in Title Race; Lacrosse Team Wins in Dust, Rain, 7-6 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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