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...certainly the time to heap praises on the team for coming through Saturday and ending the Seven Year Itch. The Yale victory in itself deserves a holiday; that it is coincident with Thanksgiving is all the more appropriate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 and 20 Drumsticks | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

...Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish a new line with its back to the broad Yangtze. Past the military columns rattled slow trains of flatcars, jammed with refugees headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crescendo | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Most important game--for the wavering spectator--is the top-of-the-heap contest between Kirkland, the Harvard champ, and Berkeley, Yale's top College. Both squads in this blue-chip game will be using the single wing formation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Games Cover Soldiers Field | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...piles of rubbish, patiently searching for scrap paper, cloth, bits of metal and cigarette butts. Cats & dogs dropped in for tidbits. Not far from the Pantheon, the traditional rendezvous of Roman cats, a spinsterish old woman called pleadingly to her bloated black & white cat, which feasted from a rubbish heap. In a nearby cafe, brawny comrades jeered. The old woman turned on them: "If the poor thing dies from indigestion, you will be to blame, you rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Comeback | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...formation was revelatory-it said clearly that in the Soviet hierarchy Malenkov Was Zhdanov's replacement. Zhdanov's death raised Malenkov and Rumania's matriarchal but equally tough Ana Pauker to the top of the Cominform heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Son of the Bourgeoisie | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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