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...active house committee contrives a steady flow of Saturday night informal dances. Adams was one of the first Houses to pack its common room with television spectators, and the first to campaign for an automatic launderer in the basement. It has a complete darkroom, harbors a wobbly ping-pong table, and has a fellow in the lobby who sells magazines, candy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Report On the Houses | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Ping-Pong Imperialists | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exile In Canton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

David E. Lillenthal of Adams House and Rockville, Md.: Assistant Editorial Chairman of CRIMSON; Unofficial Counsel to the Sub-Committee of the Unofficial Committee Investigating the Council Committee on Food; Ping Pong; 3-Meter Dive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Extenuation. In Jonkb'ping, Sweden, Ole Jonson, convicted of stealing and embezzlement, was only put on probation when he told the court that he did it to get money so he could move away from his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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