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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wild Plot. Then the pros-Bill O'Dwyer and Tammany Hall-looked Clen up & down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Education of Clendenin | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...their children with orange juice, cod liver oil and milk, sends the doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Medicine Man | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...sophomores who are currently straining themselves to look like a pleasant surprise include Art Rouner, stroke of last year's freshman boat; Ollie Iselin, who rowed right behind him; Ted Anderson, a seventeen-year-old dark horse who failed to make any boat last year and Buffy Bohien, George Hewitt, and Clarence Asp, three more members of the '51 boat. Captain Frank Strong and perennial bowman Mike Scully are the varsity holdovers with Bill Leavitt up from the Jayvees as coxswain...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Upstart Sophomores Dominate First Boat of Bolles' Crew | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

From the New England Conservatory of Music came Marguerite Willauer to play Galatea. You will look long before you find such a lovely and poised creature on an opera stage. Except for a few uncertainties, she sang with purity and richness. Her alternating recitative with Tibbetts compares favorably with any singing around, including, I expect, the Met next week...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...philosophy. It might be fairer to the Commissioner to say that he allowed his deputy to use these methods. The activities of Frank Dwyer were continually on the lowest level. He never explained how two Boston newspapers obtained his false and sensational "report" last fall which made the Reformatory look like a riotous Bedlam. His means of gathering "evidence" were repugnant, to put it mildly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters' Victory | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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