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...away the best game it has played all season, the Crimson overcame almost hopeless odds to break the jinx which had held it winless in New Haven for four years. The day before the game Ed Mrkonich was cut over he eye in practice, and Joff Coolidge went to the infirmary with a high temperature Saturday morning. Despite the loss of these two key players, Harvard found itself after a chaotic first period to completely outscrap the Elis over the final 40 minutes, and win its second consecutive Yale victory...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Crimson Six Overtakes Yale to Win Again 4-2 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...necessarily the most important, and they certainly aren't the only ones. But they make one thing very, very clear. The University is going to have to act fast and forthrightly before the situation gets completely out of hand. Things can't go on for long in this hopeless muddle...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/3/1953 | See Source »

...hate us for out autos and out skyscrapers, it can gain only envy if it pursues this tactic. In its attempts to spawn anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas of those they influence. Catholic missionaries in China paint their cherubs with yellow skins, Communist propaganda plays on Asian love of independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faltering Voice | 2/26/1953 | See Source »

...idea behind the program is to dramatize the life of a living person. As exhibit A, Edwards brought on Lillian Roth, 40, a topflight torch singer of the Prohibition era, who cheerfully admitted that she had been a hopeless drunk for 16 years before being rescued by Alcoholics Anonymous. Also on hand to underline the horrors of strong drink: a psychiatrist who had treated her (Announcer Edwards described Lillian as having suffered from "impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity"); a brother-in-law who had paid her bills; such glamorous foul-weather friends as Lita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sermon on the Air | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Americans may picture refugees as stoic people with babushkas and cardboard suitcases. Actually, they are scared, often hopeless people, and they come with nothing, for baggage in East Germany is a sign of flight or intent to flee-punishable offenses. Though the Communists methodically plug one exit after another into West Germany, 1,000 refugees a day now pour into West Berlin, and authorities expect the figure will eventually climb to as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Life in the Shade | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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