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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deacons will be depending on quarterback Hol French and four other veterans of last fall's crack team to keep their single-wing attack moving. Coach "Tank" Langdale isn't overly worried about his "new line," and his team is two deep in every position. Half of last year's championship first-stringers have returned for this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Football Squads Begin House Season | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

When WBZ-TV isn't in the studio playing with rattlesnakes or out following a ball game, it devotes much of its time to films. After the films are adapted technically for television, they must undergo a crucial test before the film editor. The editor spends eight hours a day scrutinizing every film the station plans to use, occasionally deleting whatever "won't go in Boston." "I bore myself silly," she says...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...Army, Art evinced no surprise over its victory at Ann Arbor. "That was no upset," was the only comment he had to offer. "You can't stay up on a string like that for more than a couple of years; it isn't healthy...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Varsity Begins Workouts For Army | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

Defense officials stuck to their original line: this isn't anything we haven't anticipated. Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray took his vacation as scheduled; other top defense officials went off for the usual routine dinners and speeches across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Difficult & Distant | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Bogart sternly denied that he had ever hit a lady in his life, described himself as "a lovable character, about as vicious as Margaret O'Brien." When New York Post Home News's Columnist Earl Wilson asked him if he had been drunk, however, he replied moodily: "Isn't everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Night Life of the Gods | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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