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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years of coaching experience, Margarita has been on the raw end of Harvard-Yale contest three times. He worked under Dick Harlow in the gloomy 1946 and 1947 seasons and saw his Crimson charges bow t the Elis both years. Last fall he joined the Herman Hickman regime in New Haven, and when a Valpey-inspired Crimson eleven turned the tables, Margarita was still on the bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Georgetown Appoints Margarita Grid Coach | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

...week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High-Flying Terms | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Gout, Dr. Harkavy announced last week in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be set off by an allergy. Starting out three years ago to find out what causes gout, Dr. Harkavy noticed that it attacks its victims most frequently in the spring and fall. He thinks he has found one of the answers in pollen from grass and trees in the spring, from ragweed in the fall. Pollen, he says, can be the trigger that sets off a series of reactions that wind up as a pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wine or Pollen | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Harkavy theory has worked out in three cases so far. Two men and a woman who had attacks of gout in the spring or fall were found to be sensitive to pollens, as well as to certain foods. Harkavy brought on attacks by injecting the pollens. When they were immunized against the pollens, and avoided the troubling foods, two of the patients were free of gout. The classical remedy-colchicine-gives relief from pain. But the trick is to find out what the victim is allergic to, says Harkavy. It might be the grapes of the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wine or Pollen | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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