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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half was see-saw, scoreless football all the way, due mainly to the line work of Adams' Frank Holt and Bill Boucher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...have to love Mrs. Roosevelt to realize you have written a good piece captioned "First Lady" [TIME, Oct. 25]. I am among those who have doubtlessly been unfair in our judgment of her, but it is wholesome to see an able pen give her her due in . . . TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Other legislation which the President had asked for in July and which presumably he would ask for again: extension of rent control (due to expire March 31) and a housing bill-if not the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for building 500,000 housing units for low-income families, then something very much like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Men at Work | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Nevertheless, things were looking up for Arnold Schoenberg. His Survivor from Warsaw was due for performances in London and Paris. Last month the New York Philharmonic-Symphony played his early Five Pieces for Orchestra and a Manhattan critic wrote: "It was something of a discovery for audiences to find [them] works of a poet and a craftsman hardly surpassed by any musician now among us. Of course, they were written nearly 40 years ago, and had been so successfully reviled by commentators . . . that the performance has an element of daring." Manhattan's New Friends of Music, in a daring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Destiny & Digestion | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

According to the terms of the proposed agreement, all three gentlemen will sit down to a meal and whoever loses foots the bill. The local due are convinced they can upset Yale's answer to Man-mountain Dean because they boast palates "conditioned by copious amounts of Army chow, Southern barbeque, and Cambridge beans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Out to Out-Eat Hickman . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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