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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munro inherited eleven letter-winners from his predecessor, wee Scot James MacDonald, and has used, with a few modifications, the short pass, English style of play that MacDonald taught. But according to the small coterie of old-time Boston soccer enthusiasts who are the only regular rooters for the team, the Crimson has improved considerably over the past two years. Under Munro, it plays a more coordinated control game than last year, when it won seven and lost...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...stopped off in Ottawa to settle the business of George's seat in Parliament. A safe one was found: the Ottawa south riding of Carleton, where Tory Russel Boucher agreed to step down. In 25 elections Carleton has returned Tories 25 times, including Prime Ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Robert Borden. The Drews could take that record as a good omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: Mon Homme | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Keeping their feet solidly on the ground, mostly with power plays through the middle, the Funsters first scored at the end of the opening quarter when Chuck MacDonald pushed over right tackle, at the end of a sustained drive. The buck for extra point failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Trips Lowell Squad, Dudley Loses | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...only specific action by the Committee was the appointment of a three-man Food Sub-Committee to meet with the dining room manager of the Union. Chosen for this suggestion group were Douglas W. Patterson '52, Robert D. Mohlman '52, and Benjamin F. MacDonald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Has First Meeting | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...best formulas for making a bestseller is to give a jolly account of some painful personal experience. More than 1¼ million book buyers clucked happily over Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I (TIME, March 4, 1946), which was a smiling-through-tears account of how she and husband Bob struggled to raise poultry. The Plague and I (now in its third printing) is all about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Camille In Clover | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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