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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
Princeton has come a long way since last season. Nassau's inexperienced 1948 team was beaten, 3 to 1, by a Harvard squad that was weakened by the after-effects of food poisoning. The difference between the 1948 and 1949 Tigers can be found in the addition of five or six exceptionally competent sophomores...
Since royalties will have to be paid for Sartre's play, Idler found that some admission charge would be necessary to cover expenses. All seats will be $.60 and none will be reserved. Future Idler productions will probably be handled under the new "meet expenses" policy...
That, at least, is the observation of Robert A. Dennison '50 after a season spent piloting jalopies around a West Peabody track. However, it isn't what induced him to take up jalopies as a pastime. He started going to the races during the summer but found it was getting too expensive to pay his way into the track several nights a week; so Dennison picked up a cheap 1940 two-door Ford sedan, three mechanics, a membership in the National Jalopy Racing Association, and became an insured driver instead of a daring spectator...