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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three hundred and fifty solicitors combined their efforts last night to collect $10,159 for the Combined Charities Drive on the first night of a one-week campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive Nets $10,159 in First Day | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

Flanders will open discussion of "The American Century" with "International Strength" as his topic. Tomorrow night he will speak on "External Policy" and Thursday on "Pax Americana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flanders to Lecture Tonight On 'The American Century' | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

After a meeting of the executive board last night, Roy F. Gootenberg '49 IPA, president of the College AVC, announced that copies of the protest will be sent to National AVC Chairman Michael Straight in Washington and to all AVC members in Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC to Fight 'Stool Pigeon' Clause in National Campaign | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16 laps to a mile, by two teams of five players each. Each club has two teams--one of men, one of women--which race for alternate 15-minute periods. Two halves of four 15-minute periods each constitute a night's competition...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

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