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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 70 Against the World | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Everett High School's chances looked mightly slim in the state championship struggle after yesterday's scrimmage with Coach Moe Berg's squad. The mock battle saw even the Freshman third team outscoring the younger cagers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Wins, Faces Dean Academy | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

Carnival time brought no carnival to Athens last week. The people did not, in the fashion of happier years, cavort through the streets behind the gaitanaki (mock donkey formed by two clowns). The season brought only reminders of the fact that Greece was one of Europe's unhappiest nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

With the meet score standing at 13 to 0 for Army, Dan Ray, Crimson 145-pounder, won a decisive 10 to 5 decision over the Cadet captain, John Mock. Probably the strongest man for his weight on either squad, Mock did not have the skill or balance of his opponent. Don Louria, the Crimson captain, had an easy time with stocky Cadet Chuck Olentine in the 165-pound class, winning an 11 to 2 decision after taking Olentine down with a winglock...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Army Grapplers Take Light Classes To Give Varsity First Loss of Year | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...lineups: HARVARD ARMY Cohen or Schless 121 Cunningham Bowditch 128 Fern Trinkle 136 Robertson Ray 145 Mock (Capt.) Tyng 155 Thevenet Louria (capt.) 165 Olentine Claflin 175 Finley Fuller Unlim McDaniel...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Army Grapplers Present First Real Threat to Unbeaten Wrestlers Today | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

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