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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emil Van Peborgh got some experience in the Argentine. Bennett has playing time behind him at the Squadron "A" indoor area in New York. On the second string, Tim White, brother of two former Harvard players, played in Cleveland; Tom Calhoun, brother of Sandy, also rode in Manila; Emery Houghton wielded the mallet in Arizona. "Unfortunately some of us haven't been on a horse since before the war," Bennett added...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Paupered Polo Players Lose To Blue in Post-War Debut | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

...suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

RAINTREE COUNTY (1,066 pp.) - Ross Lockridge Jr. - Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Myth | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author of Salem in the Seventeenth Century and Salem in the Eighteenth Century, His prose is as clear and dry as a salary check. He has written what is probably the best history that there is, factual and authoritative, of an American port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before the Harvest: Before the Harvest | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...elected were: Raymond Grew of Spokane, Washington, and Hollis Hall; Thomas Whieney Grossman of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Thayer Hall; Richard Brydon Hansen of Chicago and Massachusetts Hall; Sherrill Houghton Houston of New Canaau, Connecticut, and Thayer Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Election Clinches Lively Campaign | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

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