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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidney Webb was shy and 31, Beatrice Potter* ardent and 32, when Cupid realized that they were made for each other. Courtship began at the Glasgow Co-operative Congress of 1890, where Sidney hewed one of Beatrice's political articles to pieces and rewrote it. In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth. A year later they were off on their honeymoon-an impassioned examination of Dublin labor problems, rounded off with a joint appearance at the Glasgow Trades Union Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Among the Statistics | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Buzz Sawhill, Jayvee coach last fall, is tentatively scheduled to guide the soccer team's drills with the assistance of 1947 captain Hunt Mavor. Next fall's captain, Phil Potter, injured his lung while playing in New York this winter and may not be able to participate actively until September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Booters Begin Workouts; Phil Potter Hurt | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas have a highly experienced way with this sort of comedy, and Director H. C. Potter is so much at home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

After playing on the informal Crimson soccer eleven in the summer of 1944, Potter entered the American Field Service, returning to College in time for the 1946 season. This fall he was one of four Harvard players nominated to participate in the Olympic trials held at Troy, N. Y., last Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Potter Picked Varsity Soccer Captain; Toulmin, Manager | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

While at Exeter, Potter played on the soccer team for two seasons, filling an inside position both years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Potter Picked Varsity Soccer Captain; Toulmin, Manager | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

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