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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of 1927 pioneered in making a 25th reunion something more than a social affair. With the cooperation of the faculty, it set up a series of symposia designed to bring the Old Boys' nostalgia up to data. But these pre-reunion events were held the weekend before commencement when the College was to all intents and purposes shut down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class-Going, Culture Head Reunion Program For 1928 | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...went in & out of office so fast that most civilians hardly knew-or cared-who was in charge. The tremendous flood of industrial production, plus a bumper farm crop, kept prices stable and checked inflation. By year's end. commodities were down 12½%, almost back to their pre-Korea level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tightened Down | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...last week to its lowest scale since early October. On the frigid ridges of the central front, where the rain had put a glazed crust on four inches of fresh snow, the temperature dropped to 3° below zero. Enemy patrols were observed in white-clad camouflage. In a pre-dawn snowstorm, the Reds captured some frozen foxholes near "Old Baldy," slipped away after trading machine-gun fire with the allies for an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Frigid Ridges | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Object Matrimony. The high tide of immigration ebbed with the passage of the Johnson Act in 1924, but the Alliance went on. Financed almost entirely by New York's Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, it now runs a pre-kindergarten and summer camps. During the school term, the settlement house is still the best place for the kids to spend their leisure time. So popular is the Alliance, even among East Side roughnecks, that a threat to cut off membership is usually enough to keep young toughs in line. Seldom does a teen-age gang need what Director Murray calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: East of the Bowery | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Ufford is the defending champion in the tourney, generally considered a pre-championships. A Crimson representative has won the trophy four times, while Yale, Princeton, and Haverford players have won three, Traditionally coach Jack Barnaby and his boys drink champagne from the bowl presented a Crimson winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five, Sextet, Ufford Busy Over Xmas | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

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