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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major and minor sports may soon be lopped off in the budget-balancing campaign. The H.A.A. has no choice; it must tighten its belt or get caught with its pants down. Alumni donations to the Endowment Fund are dribbling in pretty slowly. A play-for-pay football team would mop up the red ink in the ledger, but there's more chance of John Harvard's statue crawling under its pedestal than of this means being adopted. Last night's Crimson Network seminar of Harvard and B.C. footballers, though, came through with a workable idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR RENT | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

...train of British armored cars, tanks and infantry trucks one day last week. It wriggled onto the coast road, penetrating still farther into the African empire of Benito Mussolini. From the desert to the south another spearhead, fresh Anzac and Moslem Indian troops, poked north and west. Before mop-up units in Bardia had finished prying the last pockets of Italian Terribili from their wadi hideouts, the two points were encircling Tobruch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Crumbling Empire | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...dangerous duty of the septet is to mop up John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Lady with Red Hair (Warner Bros.) is the late Mrs. Leslie Carter, darling of U. S. theatre audiences during the gargoyled era at the turn of the Century. Revived for screen biography by yellow-haired Miriam Hopkins, she appears for cinemaudiences as a talentless, whining, ungrateful Trilby to mop-headed, cleric-collared Producer David Belasco's (Claude Rains) Svengali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...thousands of common stockholders in sub-par roads, the ICC report was not cheering. Some (MOP, New Haven, North Western) have been wiped out completely. But oldtimers in Wall Street recalled the drastic reorganizations of Santa Fe and Union Pacific in the '90s, their good earnings since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: ICC Wringer | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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