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Officers of the University will flood the Philadelphia meeting to bring graduates up to date on present Cambridge affairs. Academic matters will be in the fore, but Alumni will also hear Art Valpey discuss matters of the gridiron at the regular business session of the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AHC Convention Draws Alumni to Philadelphia | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

Maybe you just slipped the mothballs in the pockets of your coonskin coat and took a last glance at a rumpled Yale program, but the fact is that it's already time to be thinking of next season's gridiron tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Accepting Applications For Season Foodball Tickets | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...fact, Senator J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Chairman, was wrathful. "This device will fool no one," he said. Harry Truman, however, did not feel so bad. He met Joe that night at the Gridiron Dinner and said to him: "You can have him, I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Why Shouldn't I? | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...once, but twice, he tootled off to the National Gallery of Art to inspect the famed collection of German paintings (see ART). With Mrs. Truman and Margaret, he took in the premiere of a new movie, State of the Union, at Loew's Capitol. He went to the Gridiron Club's spring dinner at the Statler, where he made a speech and sat through a couple of hours of heavy-handed lampoonery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On the Town | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...event of the dinner was to be the "Swede" Nelson sportsmanship award to place kicker Everett Dorr of Boston University, with another presentation scheduled for Harlow. When the time came, Dick rose slowly to receive his gift, a nautically mounted clock and barometer bearing the inscribed affections of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. Then he moved to the microphone, uncertainly it seemed, and quietly he began to speak...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Harlow May Be Scout at Columbia Next Autumn | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

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