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The varsity basketball team will be hoping tonight that Dartmouth retains its reputation as the most erratic team in the Ivy League. For on paper, the unpredictable Indians are a top-heavy favorite to defeat the Crimson for the second time this season. Game time at the IAB is 8...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Basketball Team Will Meet Strong Indian Quintet Today | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

A sharpshooting Winthrop quintet defeated an erratic Kirkland five, 59-44, to win the House "A" League basketball championship last ninth. Prior to this final game of the season, the two teams were tied for the league lead.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Outplay Deacon Quintet to Take House Title | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

Died. Rush Dew Holt. 49, politically erratic onetime (1935-41 ) wonder-boy U.S. Senator from West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

As publisher and columnist of the Boston Post, Financial Juggler and Amateur Journalist John Fox last year predicted a major depression in the U.S. The prediction proved spectacularly wrong for everyone but the Post. Since his forecast, his circulation has slumped. A fortnight ago he fired 58 Postmen for economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Outfoxed? | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Gladstone was the son of a rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Almighty Liberal | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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