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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stern-eyed man in a dark overcoat and hat. For an hour and a half, without a betraying sign of recognition, they scurried by subway and bus around crowded Manhattan in an old familiar technique for shaking off shadowers. Finally, under the rumbling Third Avenue elevated, on the squalid lower East Side, the FBI agents closed in, arrested both of them. In Judith's purse was a thin, flat package. It contained, said the FBI, typewritten notes abstracted from confidential U.S. documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Baby Face | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...which resulted in a four to one demand for a dining halls survey was much too general, it was reported. He claimed that a survey might make suggestions that would improve food, but would also raise the board rate. The two to one majority that favored improved food to lower cost only indicates that students want better meals, Reynolds added...

Author: By Fred B. Little, | Title: Reynolds Vetoes Survey Of College Dining Halls | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

Second, the lower per-picture-cost enables printing of more pictures than before and of action photographs of men making the news instead of stock cuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advent of Photo Engraving Machine Rocks Local Daily | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...liked it at once. For the next two decades, at top rates ($500 to $3,000 for short stories, $30,000 to $40,000 for serials), Marquand's name was synonymous with surefire slick writing. In those days, says Marquand, "I was a simple little boy in the lower echelons, naive about literature and the world in general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Elis came out for the third period fired up with determination and for me of the period battled the varsity on fairly even terms. Crimson goalie Bill Yetman lost his shutout at 17:27 when a shot from the stick of Watson Bray whistled into the extreme lower left hand corner of the cage. The varsity countered with the final score of the night two minutes later...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Tops Defensive Eli Squad in Easy Game, 4-1 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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