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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard debaters Donald A. Gianella '51 and A. Werner Pleus took the affirmative on the question: "Resolved, That the United States should join with Great Britain in an economic union." It was the Debate Council's third straight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Council Downs Boston College Team | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

Dormitory and commuter groups will join in the competition, writing and singing their own melodies. The winning song will also be printed in the Radcliffe yearbook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Assembles for Song Contest Tonight | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with no strings attached, "clearly and unequivocally that, when the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union would then join in defeating Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

This is pretty much what Robert Graves's new novel is all about-except that peppy Ysabel doesn't join the admiralty until the last quarter of the book, while the gold rush occurs in the first three-quarters and is led by Ysabel's husband, who is a general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Pot | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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