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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National's "Star" passengers will get the full red-carpet treatment, starting with a carpet on the loading ramp and recorded music at take-offs and landings. The specially decorated DC-6s will seat 56 people and will have a lounge (Eastern's smaller Constellations carry 60 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Comeback for National | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

The injury scales should be evenly balanced tomorrow. Charley Binder regular Holy Cross halfback, is hors de combat, and first-string center Jim Deffley's action will be limited. As for the Crimson, defensive guard Sam Butler will sit this one out, and reserve line-men Walt Coulson, Emil Drvaric...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Varsity Finishes Work For Holy Cross Game | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

Princeton's new $6,000,000, six-story Firestone Memorial Library would be the world's largest open-stack collection: anybody could get at the books by just walking to the shelf. All Librarian Julian P. Boyd had to do was move in the 800,000 books, waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Moving Day | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

In Paris, Sacha Guitry, 63, had a slight collision. A court assessed the famed Jack-of-all-theatrics and a friend 700,000 francs (about $2,300) for causing "grave prejudice" to the Goncourt Academy. Each year the academy hands some novelist a Goncourt Prize, but Guitry and the academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

In the House of Commons last week, Labor M.P. Benn Levy asked if the Parliament dining-room menus could henceforth be printed in English instead of French. Promptly, Mrs. Ayrton-Gould gave Levy a quick lesson in French and economy. Said she: "May I point out to the Honorable Member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One of Those Heathen Customs | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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