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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ufford was the tournament's second seeded player behind defending champion Ben Heckscher, who was forced to default in the second round because of pre-vacation tennis practice. A former varsity squash captain, Ufford is one of the country's leading players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ufford Takes Foster Squash Championship | 3/28/1957 | See Source »

Tsuru, who is a professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, told the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that some of his associates in the pre-World War II period were Communists or close to the Communist party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Japanese Professor Denies Red Membership | 3/27/1957 | See Source »

...above chart lists the various training programs for officers. The ROTC programs must be entered as an incoming freshman, and therefore only the OCS (Officers Candidate School), PLC (Platoon Leaders Class) and OCC (Officers Candidate Corps) plans are of interest to most college men. PCT stands for pre-commission training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ways of Fulfilling Military Obligations Under the Reserve Forces Act | 3/27/1957 | See Source »

...Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster and the Teamsters' International President Dave Beck being under income-tax investigation at the time) and thrown them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gone with the Trash | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...begin with, Huston picked players who were not only presold to the public but pre-studied in their parts as well. Deborah Kerr played a nun in Black Narcissus ; Robert Mitchum has done no fewer than four tours of duty as a cinema serviceman. Under Huston's sharp eye, they both give good standard performances. Actress Kerr, whose makeup man went a bit too far with the cloistral pallor, sometimes looks as if she had cut her veins as well as her hair; but Actor Mitchum, even though as usual he does nothing but slob around the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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