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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It started on the 26th of August when our P.O.W. camp of 509 British, Dutch and a few Americans in the center of Japan's Northern Island was visited by four torpedo bombers from the U.S.S.Hancock. . . . They bombed us with food, tobacco, candy, TIME and LIFE, in sailor'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

With Louis N. Welnman '46, giving the play-by-play account, and Theodore L. Rowland '48, and William Lippman '48, supplying the color, the Harvard Crimson Network will broadcast the Brown game tomorrow over a special telephone wire installed for the occasion.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network to Air Brown Tilt On Special Telephone Wires | 11/16/1945 | See Source »

While on the subject of wages, Harry Truman took occasion to urge upon Congress a pay raise which many students of government have long recommended: he asked the Congress to give top-drawer U.S. officials about $10,000 a year more. Sample increases under the President's plan: members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raise for the Executives | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

In the cavernous ballroom of Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria, rich-voiced Paul Robeson recited 1,300 words of poetic prose written for the occasion by Radio Writer Norman Corwin and dedicated to an atomic world: "Set Your Clock at U-235." Then came General of the Army George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Trib's Mrs. Reid | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Does any ex-Dunsterman ever miss an occasion to draw unfavorable analogies between the apocryphal "then" and the ubiquitous "now"? In the Harvard of today a questionably humorous saga of good old K-Entry is almost as familiar and certainly not less annoying than the Massachusetts Avenue trolley line or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/9/1945 | See Source »

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