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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice in two years, Big Nine teams had invaded the Rose Bowl and made the Pacific Coast champions look like second-raters. Last week, a Big Nine team won again, but not until Northwestern Halfback Ed Tunnicliff broke loose for a 43-yard run in the last minutes of play. Final score: Northwestern 20, California 14. Some scores in other bowls (16 in all, which did a more than $2,000,000 business before some 600,000 fans...
...system looks so promising that the hospital is now giving the special treatment to 200 patients, and other VA hospitals have adopted the treatment. One of the wrinkles added by the Bedford (Mass.) Hospital: a three-paneled mirror. It helps patients who slump along with bent head and shoulders to straighten up, look the world in the face...
Most industrialists took one look at soaring sales and decided it was smarter to raise wages-and then prices-than to risk strikes. (Man days lost from strikes dropped to 34 million, lowest in three years.) On its part, labor had developed a healthy respect for the hated Taft-Hartley Act, and in most cases it spoke softly...
Force of Evil (Enterprise; MGM) takes a long, unfavorable look at the numbers racket. Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very...
Hamilton's Itinerarium is one of the most candid and engaging travel diaries to come down from a colonial American. It is casual to the point of slightness, a bit snobbish and of little historical importance. But it brings the speech of the time and the look of town & country to the reader in a way historians rarely do. Hamilton was contemptuous .of "aggrandized upstarts" who put on social airs, and he frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City...