Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...erase any ambiguity arising from your account of the playing of Harvard's Negro tackle, Chester Pierce, in the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium [TIME, Oct. 20], I should like to add that the numerous Confederate flags were not displayed to commemorate this precedent-shattering event. It is virtually standard operating procedure to unfold the flag of the gallant old Confederacy whenever this university plays a "Yankee" eleven here or in the North-so was it last year with Princeton and so will it be with Pennsylvania in Franklin Field this year...
...third, the lumbering giant got up to 100 m.p.h., unexpectedly took to the air, flew about a mile at an altitude of 70 feet. There were 30 persons aboard on the initial flight-engineers and technicians. Although flying is what a plane is supposed to do, the event was treated as startling news. (The New York Daily Mirror headlined: "HUGHES TESTS BIG PLANE-IT FLIES...
...stories succeed, largely because they focus on a concrete event; but the third, called "Apprentice," is nothing but a long, almost pointless narrative that is written carelessly. "The Prisoner," by Roger Princerd, is the high point of the magazine, owing its success to a straightforward and unpretentious style, and to having the solid basis of one realistic incident. The story of a stowaway being back to Poland from America, it remains objective and lucid throughout...
Vachel Lindsay's Simon Legree" in Douglas Moore's choral adaption enjoyed enthusiastic competence at the hands of the Tiger unit. Adept musical comedy touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...
...grim, ill-nourished Freshmen grabbed the cherished cane from three of their four opponents in the final title event, but "the strong arms" of a Sophomore named O'Connor "wrenched the wood" from his enemy, the sobered Princetonian reported, and saved his class from the ignominious disaster of defeat...