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While Exeter's squash team anxiously awaited the arrival of the Yardlings on Jan. 19, Coach Corey Wynn's outfit was practicing in Cambridge, unaware of its alleged match with Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Awaits Squash Team As Freshmen 'Forget' Match | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

...stationed near the Tongan capital, Nukualofa, during the war. My artillery outfit was part of a task force consisting of Naval and Army units . . . and your fine account revived many pleasant memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...when they went looking for Halperin, he was not to be found. Neighbors of the Halperins in suburban Brighton reported that they had seen the professor and his wife loading up their car at 3 a.m. Thanksgiving morning, and the two "had enough luggage in their car to outfit a large family for a year." The next thing B.U. knew, Maurice Halperin was in Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Word | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Nothing Is Impossible." Dressed in his usual informal outfit-a native sport shirt and pants-sweating freely from the sun and a nagging attack of flu, Magsaysay stood cheerfully waving to friends and saluting the colors as a 40-minute long parade of helmeted Korean veterans, smartly stepping bands and lumbering Sherman tanks filed by. When the last vehicle had passed, Magsaysay waved the cops aside and the delirious crowd surged forward to engulf the presidential reviewing stand. The photographers' platform swayed like a ship at sea and two cameramen fell off, a microphone stand was trampled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: New Guy | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...soon the musical extravagances of bop began to wear thin. Some of its innovations, e.g., more advanced harmonies and trickier rhythms, were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big-Band Jazz | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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