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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leverett House sophomores held an exclusive get-together dinner in the House dining hall last night. The 28-man House staff and the House committee were honored guests. Leigh Hoadley, Master of the House, and Bart J. Bok, associate director of the College Observatory, spoke on the history and advantages of Leverett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Bunnies Dine | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Four undergraduates returned to Cambridge at 4 p.m. yesterday with a tale of failure. The quartet claimed to have reached Philadelphia on their way to Beverly Hills, California, in an effort to bring movie starlet Janet Leigh back to Cambridge for a football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Students Unable to Snare Leigh | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...Manchester opening of A Streetcar Named Desire, Actress Vivien Leigh got not only critical raves but a courtly gesture from Director Laurence Olivier: despite wild applause, he declined to take even a single bow on his wife's big night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...long-suffering "Amos" of radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy, and Jane Stoneham Gosden, 25, half-sister of the New York Giants' President Horace Stoneham: their first child (he has a son and daughter by a previous marriage), a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Craig Leigh. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened its 75th annual meeting in Philadelphia, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its president, paused while pinning up convention badges (see cut) to pin down just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mixture as Before | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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