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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chapters, covering the activities of three dozen athletes who, in the author's opinion, did something noteworthy during the 1948 season. Waldman, a sportswriter for the Christian Science Monitor, is sufficiently familar with his subjects, but his lack of imagination and his love of acntimentality make his accounts trite and often contrived...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...author handles his material adequately, albeit not very colorfully. This is noticeable especially in his account of the Olympic games--the facts are all there but they don't make for stimulating reading half a year later. But even with all the right times and batting averages, the book contains several flaws...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...wish we had another Yale game" one biddy said yesterday. "We didn't make beds on Saturday because everyone was in Yale, and we didn't make them Monday because everyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's a Week Without any Weekend For the First Time Since Summer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Square merchants just don't care. George O'Brien of the Harvard Provision Company said yesterday that "it won't make any different to us. Students drink as much when there isn't a football game as they do when there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's a Week Without any Weekend For the First Time Since Summer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...none of the troupe ever come up to the fiery Mexican standard set by Carmen Amaya and her numerous brothers, sisters, and cousins. It's not that her dancing is any more exciting than the Spanish variety, but just that there are no dancers with the "Cabalgata" company who make you leap out of your seat and shout...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

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