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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's alumni game--the result of a bid made by former Crimson catcher Bill Hamlen--will be played under game conditions but is billed as "informal." As a result Coach Stuffy McInnis will probably give Ira Godin, Barry Turner, and Ralph Hymans all a chance to do some pitching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Resumes Season with Alumni | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

Past performance figures (only first places will count in the scoring) give Harvard-Yale an edge in the pole vault, high jump, shot put, 100, mile, 880, and 220 low hurdles; the Britishers appear superior in the 440, 220, broad jump, two mile, and 120 high hurdles. No times are available for speculation on the 440-yard sprint relay...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Pencil Gives Harvard-Yale Margin Over British Team | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

These are the dog days of the crew season, when exam period and a long gap between races combine to give Newell boathouse an unwonted air of manorial gloom. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, usually a time of crowded confusion, Coach Bolles could be found sitting alone in his upstairs office, poring over the records of his former crews...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Adjourn to Red Top To Prepare for Yale Race | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...play. Ask these people-both the players and the watchers-whether the pinball machine is a mere frivolity. Far from that, they will tell you, this invention is one of the most profound and marvelous of the machine age: it is a thing which can restore the soul and give evidence of things unseen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mirabile Visu | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...last Lampoon of the year is now out on the stands and a quick flip-through will give the prospective buyer the best that the magazine has to offer: its cartoons. There are two or three in the current issue which could conceivably appear in "The New Yorker" during its annual mid-summer slump and one, entitled "La Mouche," is probably the best the Lampoon has printed this year...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: On the Shelf | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

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