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With Hutson in his prime, things looked hopeless for Harry, but then starting right end Milt Gantenbein retired to a more quiet life and Jacunski was shifted to fill the hole...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Erstwhile Green Bay End Jacunski Scouts and Coaches for the Crimson | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...their ghost school a month each year, the Mount Washington school board avoids paying the bills for the three local pupils at Hillsdale. But Mount Washington's parents are up in arms: they say they are paying twice for their children's schooling. Their case is pretty hopeless: the majority of Mount Washington's taxpayers have no children in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ghost School | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need not end their careers in hopeless frustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Little Flower | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...story really softens one's heart," wrote one susceptible newsman as Yen's colleagues began circulating a petition to Mme. Chiang. But it was all hopeless. The deadline remained unchanged. Said Fang Chih, Kuomintang leader: "I think no patriotic man or woman wants to embrace each other under soft lights. . . . Dancing girls could be trained to acquire useful talents in reconstructing the country and wiping out bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Off with the Dance | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course, on the transfigured Miss Lupino, her violent sweetheart and their hopeless romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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