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...final analysis, Connecticut was outcharged in the line and that made the difference. Valpey's squad includes 23 sophomores, 12 juniors, and six seniors and it inevitably will make mistakes before it improves. Meanwhile, Hickman continues to moan. The word out of New Haven yesterday was that Conway and Masters were hurt Saturday and may not be able to play against Brown this weekend. All's right with the world...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

...February 6, a group of Congressmen and their friends, calling itself the Mississippi Valley Association, will meet in St. Louis and plot out their annual campaign against a Missouri Valley Authority. They will moan, as they have been doing for the last five years, about the dangers of "government socialism encroaching on our rivers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valley of Debt | 1/12/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan's biggest bookshops, a salesman gestured cynically toward his Christmas customers. "Give them a fat historical novel and they'll trample every good book in the place to get to it." It was a familiar moan in the book business-even when the moaner had to raise his voice to be heard above his booming cash register. Yet as a summary for 1949 the judgment was too jaundiced. It was true that popular puddings were as plentiful as usual, with old practitioners like Frank Yerby, Marguerite Steen and F. van Wyck Mason tirelessly serving them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Checking accounts will sag, fathers will moan, and moguls in Lehman Hall will rub their hands in glee as the latest in a long line of term bills falls due today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today Is Last Day To Pay Term Bills | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

American popular music, from groaner's moan to Dixieland jazz, is a highly exportable commodity. So the State Department has learned from its new international disc jockey, Martin Block, whose weekly half-hour of music and informal chatter has become the Voice of America's most popular program. Even behind the Iron Curtain, where Communists are furiously attacking "decadent American music," thousands of recalcitrant Slavs continue to carry a torch for Dinah Shore or Gene Autry, Benny Goodman or Lena Home. Last week the Czech government skirmished with some of these incorrigibles and came off badly scorched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pfui! | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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