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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. So said Hamlet, explaining how to play a recorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Easy As Lying | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...dining hall headaches, Yale is at present threatened by a walkout of most of its employees. During the summer months the United Construction Workers Union, a C. I. O. outfit representing 400 of Yale employees, presented Eli officials with demands for collective bargaining and closed shop to govern wages, hours, and conditions of employment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE ALTERS DINING HALL ARRANGEMENT | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...most States where it is legal, prizefighting is controlled by a State-appointed commission. All but four of these commissions, up to last week, were members of the National Boxing Association, a self-appointed body that has tried for 22 years to govern the U.S. prize ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: War to the Finish | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...policemen but U.S. Border Patrolmen guard the 900-odd Italians who are detained at scenic Missoula because there is no way of deporting them. The detainees (never referred to as prisoners) govern themselves, spend their time reading, listening to the radio, playing games, doing chores for pin money. They are not forced to work. Name of the camp, chosen by the inmates, is "Bella Vista" (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: News from Montana | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...remind their members that golf is still being played in the ancient and honorable island of its birth, many a U.S. golf club last week posted wartime rules which govern play on British links. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: War Hazards | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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