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What if? is history's forever teasing and unanswerable question. What if Marshal Ney's troops had not sat eating lunch before Waterloo while the Duke of Wellington retreated to safety? Etcetera. To all such historic posers must now be added questions raised by a retired British group captain named Frederick Winterbotham. What if a Pole working in a German factory had not defected to the Allies in 1938, bringing with him the first construction details of the Nazis' coding machine, called Enigma? And what if British cryptographers had not eventually cracked Enigma's supposedly unbreakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ne Plus Ultra | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...continued improvement of Eastern swimming in general vis-a-vis Indiana, etcetera, and the rise of Harvard swimming in particular since the arrival of Don Gambril from Long Beach is graphically illustrated in the final national rankings released last week by Swimming World...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Begins NCAA Swimming Action Today | 3/22/1973 | See Source »

...weekend sprees are as old and outdated as the University power structure, as well as being basically freshman, but original plans original plans had been for such an affair. A survey indicated that proposed trips to the beach, etcetera were not too appealing to people in the House, and that, in fact, a big weekend for the House was no real turn-on at all. Projected costs to students were also unpopular. There was, too, the problem of paying for a big-name band...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: On Spring Weekends and Beer | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

...school, and for him it never really died: his determined disrespect for the materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that art can shape lend the current collection its saving measure of excitement. In Optical Hopes and Illusions, bicycle riders ride cross-canvas to turn into eyeglasses. Etcetera seems nothing more than a row of bright blue buildings, ends up spelling out its title. Making the Fur Fly, Ray's homage to Georges Braque. glues a bird-shaped piece of pelt on a solid background. Signature looks to be a single building, but at the proper distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandada | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...joint concert of the Harvard and Radcliffe choruses Friday night was not an Etcetera concert. That was fortunate: choral works contain such diversity in their original settings and simple length that an evening of varied chunks and snippets, and Etcetera concert, very easily comes apart at the seams. This concert did not, for the predominance of sacred works accentuated the contrasts among them, and an excellent performance of Schutz's Musicalische Exequien capped the evening off well...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The Glee Club and Choral Society | 4/30/1962 | See Source »

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