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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others were much less inclined to be charitable. Said Indiana's Democratic National Committeeman Frank McHale: "It's a good riddance. He is a much confused man and always had his thingamajigs mixed up with his whatchamacallits. I nominate for his running mate John L. Lewis and then we will have all of them on the same side of the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Voice of the People? | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

When Sir Anthony Van Dyck was fighting hangovers to paint 17th Century London society, Washington, D.C. was not yet even a gleam in Architect L'Enfant's eye. This week Washington's National Gallery proudly exhibited "its first full-length portrait from Van Dyck's English period." The portrait, a sparkling evocation of the foppish Duc de Guise, was a New Year's gift from New York Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. That made the 1,019th painting the National Gallery has been given since it opened its doors in 1941 (it has only found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Best | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...years of critical health forced the resignation yesterday of Richard Cresson Harlow, head football coach at Harvard since 1935. Coming 13 years to the day from the time when he took over the Crimson reigns from Edward L. Casey, the 58-year-old mentor's resignation followed closely on the heels of a communication from his physician, Dr. Walter Kempner of the Duke University hospital, Durham, North Carolina...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Poor Health Forces Crimson Mastermind to Quit After 13 Years as Head Coach | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Members of the Committee are William J. Barber '46, Sherman M. Funk '50, Richard L. Hanford '49, and Warren G. Vander Maas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Postpones Decision on Grades System Until April 1 | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...Eric L. Peterson 3B and Robert D. Palmer 2B, the volunteers connected a tuning unit at McCulloch Hall with the Network's Winthrop House transmitter. Cable was laid in University steam tunnels, but crossed the Charles attached to piers of the bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trans-River Wire Adds Busy School To WHRV Range | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

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