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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lazy days at Key West, Fla. the formalities of the White House had quickly given way to a friendly atmosphere of sport-shirted ease. Harry Truman pitched horseshoes with his staff, bobbed placidly in the blue-green Atlantic waters, sometimes dropped in to chat with reporters on a companionable first-name basis. It was during one such informal visit-at a party for White House Secretary Matt Connelly-that one newsman casually observed that General Dwight D. Eisenhower seemed to be acting oddly like a presidential candidate. As casually, Harry Truman amiably agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Friendly Exchange | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Monday the Council voted to recommend the inclusions in the "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations" a provision making illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the document includes a discriminatory membership clause. The resolution, beaten the first time it was introduced, passed by one vote on a later vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Might Restudy Club Bias Decision | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Editors at first planned to go ahead with their tub-sharing and fight the case to the highest tribunal if an injunction was served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers Splash Cold Water On Crimson's Bathtub Plan | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...First Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater Body Organizes to Teach Acting | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...first selection presented yesterday was from George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion." Sherman C. Hawkins '51 took the title part of a kind-hearted Christian of Roman times who removes a thorn from the foot of a lion. Phyllis Courtney of Boston University played his wife, and Richard B. England '53, was the lion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater Body Organizes to Teach Acting | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

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