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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are amusing touches. The first accounts of Lincoln's shooting, taken off the New York Tribune wire, are as confused and contradictory as any modern disaster reports. Gettysburg sounds like two different battle from the reports of Virginia and Ohio correspondents--just as the latest war sounded incredible to readers of both American and Japanese dispatches...
...news "beat" is here too, all the way: Horace Greeley in an interview with Brigham Young, in which Young first admitted to 15 wives (1859); Henry Stanley of the Tribune finding Dr. Livingstone (1872); the world's first airplane flight, reported exclusively by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (1903); the London Daily Telegraph revealing Kaiser Wilhelm's war plans in another exclusive, this time an interview (1908). these are the headline stories of their times, and they cannot but thrill the reader still, for with the dust blown off them they jump from yellowed pages like the four-alarm fires...
...count was tied 11 all as the clock ran out on the fourth chukker, and was still tied at the end of the first overtime when the score stood at 14 to 14. Goals by Randy Tucker and Pete Manigault sewed up the game for the Princetons, in spite of a last minute score by Crimson captain Walt Reveraggi...
Harvard surged ahead at the outset of the contest, sparked by player-coach Sandy Calhoun, who raced up three first chukker goals. Calhoun was top scorer for the Crimson with seven tallies to his credit. Allen Ellis of Princeton, however, with eight was high scorer for the game...
...series of "symphony forums designed to bring good music to the students at low prices" is being instituted by the National Student Association, N.S.A. officers disclosed last night. The first concert in this series will be given at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Rindge Auditorium when the First Veterans' Orchestra will present a concert of light classics...