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...varsity tennis team starts its annual spring vacation trip south this Saturday. According to the schedule, it will play five intercollegiate matches on the nine-day excursion. April 2-3 at the University of North Carolina 4-5 at Davidson 7 at Navy 21 at Boston University 28 Brown May 2 University of North Carolina 4 Columbia 5 at Princeton 9 at Williams 11 Pennsylvania 12 Army 18-21 New England championships at Brown 22 Yale 26 Dartmouth
...Boston, the Rev. Bryan Green, canon of Birmingham Cathedral in England, was conducting a nine-day crusade that filled the 10,000-capacity Mechanics Hall and overflowed into two churches. Anglican Green (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948) was especially effective with young listeners: many of his 600-odd converts on a typical night were young people in tears...
...nine-day period of national mourning was declared, Filipino planes and government troops combed the mountains in search of the slayers. From his hideout, Huk Leader Luis Taruc issued a statement which would scarcely comfort or reassure the bereaved islanders. If, he said, his own investigation revealed "a breach of Hukbalahap iron discipline," punishment of the guilty party would be carried out swiftly...
...week's end, the President shucked off visitors and boarded his yacht, the Williamsburg for a leisurely nine-day cruise in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Truman finds in the Williamsburg one of the few places on earth where he can relax with his friends in privacy. If Harry Truman is sent back to Missouri next January, undoubtedly the thing he will miss most will be the yacht...
Idlewild's official dedication will begin this month as the city's Golden Anniversary International Air Exposition, when 1,000 Air Force planes will pass in review before President Truman. During the nine-day celebration, the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will demonstrate their latest aircraft. For the city the celebration will hold a broader significance. A field capable of moving 1,000 flights a day comes close to the commercial air supremacy predicted by Fiorello H. La Guardia when he called for the "best damn airport in the world...