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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vincent P. Moravec '50, of the Varsity Club and West Bridgewater, Pa., was elected vice-president of the Harvard Varsity Club for 1947 at a meeting of undergraduate squad and team members at the Varsity Club last night. All other offices in the club are held by graduate members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Club Chooses Moravec 1947 Leader | 5/16/1947 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Rickety Rails | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...long-awaited absence of rain and cold resulted in lowered Varsity scores. Tyke Wilcox, number one man, pulled a 76 out of the bag to win his fourth individual match in five starts--he lost only to the Maine Amateur Champ--and no one tallied over Pa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Win Fifth As 76 by Wilcox Helps Defeat B.U. | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

Bryn Mawr, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...dawn's light, the British Army moved its might into Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other large towns. Loudspeakers blared that all residents must stay in their houses for 24 hours. At Safad a nervous British lieutenant called on Mrs. Helen Friedman, Dov Gruner's sister from Lancaster, Pa., and broke the news to her. She had seen her brother the day before and she had been told then that she could see him again this day. She sobbed, "Why did they do it? Why did they fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Un-British | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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