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...gridmen started off like a smoldering house, picking up power after an initial loss to Tufts by one point. They dropped Rochester, lost to a dynamite New London Sub Base outfit, then smeared Coast Guard, smashed the Merchant Marine Academy, upset Brown, and ran up 60 points against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Been a Hard Year Since February, Harry . . . . For Renaissance Was Just Around the Corner | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

...boiled front of Connecticut's shirtsleeve C.I.O.-P.A.C. is a name-studded, money-gathering outfit called the Connecticut Citizens Political Action Committee. Born at a gala January party, the 500-member C.C.P.A.C. chose as its chairman lean, bespectacled Dr. Liston Pope, associate professor of social ethics at Yale. For balance, Torchsinger Libby Holman was named vice chairman, and Mrs. Howard Brubaker, wife of a New Yorker paragrapher, executive secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reds & Things | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...went into action on Bataan with a combat engineers outfit known as "Casey's Dynamiters," was captured, subjected to the rigors of the "March of Death," and eventually confined at Cabanatuan. Gertrude Hornbostel might have escaped internment. She spurned the chance and spent three years in the filthy hell of Santo Tomas. In February 1945 they were reunited. Her health had been impaired by malnutrition and beriberi. But the Hornbostels feared something worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Where Thou Lodgest... | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

With two regular attackmen unable to play and the defensemen off their game, the Varsity lacrossemen staggered through their last game of the season and lost to a flashy Williams outfit by the score of 7 to 2 last Saturday at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrossemen Drop Final Game Of Season to Williams Ten, 7-2 | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

...experimentation with tissue cultures at the Institute, Dr. Wilton R. Earle transformed normal cells to cancerous cells by treatment with 20-methyl-cholanthrene, a coal-tar chemical. In an effort to determine what takes place in the mutant cells, he now plans to destroy existing cultures and re-outfit his laboratory for a fresh attack on the baffling problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War on Cancer | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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