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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Faint Sound. In all, 111 men had died. It was the worst mine disaster in the U.S. since 195 miners died in an explosion at Mather, Pa. in 1928. To miners and many a plain citizen it seemed like a senseless tragedy. Mine inspectors had been denouncing Centralia's No. 5 for years-one recent report had listed many dangerous violations of safety codes, but little had ever been done to correct them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death in Main West | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Because it forbids such professional monkeyshines as sadistic holds and Promethean agonies, intercollegiate wrestling is generally considered about as dull as sport can get. Not so in the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., home of wrestling conscious Lehigh, where the great grunt-&-groan is taken as seriously as football. Last week 800 Bethlehemites-town & gown alike-trekked 120 miles to New Haven, Conn, to see Lehigh's wrestlers compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mayhem, Limited | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

George J. Hauptfuhrer, Jr. '48, of Lowell House and Jenkintown, Pa., was elected captain of the 1947-48 Varsity basketball team yesterday at a meeting of his letter-holding teammates at Dillon Filed House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hauptfuhrer, Fuller Named '48 Captains | 3/19/1947 | See Source »

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