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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the ten books Brinton has written, "The Anatomy of Revolution," published in 1938, is the most famous. His "United States and Britain," written four years ago, drew the wrath of the Chicago Tribune during its series on "Un-American international activities at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinton Succeeds Owen As Head of History Department | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

Attendant Harvards, enjoying a happy one to one ratio, felt that the fall term had really begun as they danced to the official PBH victoria, quaffed the famous PBH punch, and lounged with their partners on the luxurious PBH couches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Introduces 'Cliffe '53 | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of Public Health has come up with the "electrophoresis respirator," a device that may make the artificial lung obsolete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Respirator Could Make Iron Lung Obsolete in Polio | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...port after which the famous Peruvian brandy was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fancy Wrapping | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Commedia del Arts in 13-15th century Italy. The actors then had no scripts, but improvised from a stock situation. An analogy would hold between one of these situations and the framework of a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage. The humor, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

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