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...Eisenhower has adopted the mistaken standard of taking a Colonel and promoting him to a General," Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, pointed out. "He can't do anything to anger the Democrats, so he will have to pass over such top men as Dewey and Dulles...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Law Professors Suggest Successors for Jackson | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Wandering through the chill autumn woods outside Stockholm, a casual American tourist might have stumbled across the 20 goose-pimpled Swedes and Finns and mistaken them for a bunch of overage Boy Scouts minus their marbles. Shivering in skimpy costumes-cotton shorts and shirts and gym shoes-they looked like summer hikers, some two months late, waiting for a tardy scoutmaster to take them home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cross-Country Masochists | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...have done medical education a service with your forthright article on the cadaver shortage in this country [TIME, Oct. 4]. However . . . your selection of Tennessee as an example gives a mistaken impression. Although the University of Tennessee College of Medicine accepts 200 medical students a year, we have at this time five students at each dissecting table. But the situation is getting worse rather than better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Afraid that prospective candidates may have mistaken the beer drinking crowd in 14 Plympton St. last night for a good-bye party to mountain-climbing Smith girls, the CRIMSON is opening its doors again tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opportunity Remains To Join Crime Comp | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

...slave labor in Siberia is negligible. Salisbury also saw the infamous political prison outside Yakutsk, which Henry Wallace once described in glowing terms after a carefully "conducted" tour. Wallace did not know, said Salisbury, that his guide was the Siberian MVD chief. (Wallace later manfully apologized for his mistaken report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Russia Re-Viewed | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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