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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Earl Lama, 49, is a nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: The Wandering Lama | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

With the biggest effort of the season coming up today in the form of the Ivy League Heptagonals, the Crimson harriers left Cambridge yesterday afternoon for New York and ultimately Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx where the nine-college race will start at 11 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Struggle Against Ivy League Rivals in Heptagonals | 11/9/1946 | See Source »

...this meeting of cast coast cross country talent are Dartmouth and Army, but in a five mile race with 63 entries anything can happen, and Jaakko hopes to get some of his men in the low scoring positions. Last year, Army, one of the newcomers to the new nine-sided Heptagonal, took home the lowest score and the Indians captain, Jack Hanley, who will be leading his team this year, won the coveted first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Struggle Against Ivy League Rivals in Heptagonals | 11/9/1946 | See Source »

...Exonians completed the three-quarter mile course in four minutes and nine seconds. In the seventh and eighth heats of the College rowing tourney, a boat stroked by Seligman nosed out Scholl's eight by one foot, and Ross' crew defeated Emmett's. Seligman's time was 4:12, and the Ross boat covered the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Varsity Eight Whips Crimson 150's | 11/7/1946 | See Source »

...Nine months after Mississippi is blown off the map by an explosion at a uranium processing plant, American hospitals and medicos become creepingly aware that people have just stopped having babies. From the headquarters of the New York Daily World the special events editor checks the report that the calamity is world wide. Moscow cuts itself off from the world; there are riots in Paris and a wave of vice in Rome; London pleads with its populace to remain calm while a Royal Commission continues its investigation. And while the world sits on the brink of disaster, Mr. Adam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

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