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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the undergraduate Social Relations Society, fearing that their already crowded department may be flooded by "gut-seeking" freshmen, have prepared a letter to prospective concentrators warning them that Social Relations is no easy major.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentrators Warn Soc Rel Is Not a 'Gut' | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

All winter, the Cominform countries had tightened the screws of their economic blockade. The Tito press last week indignantly reported the basis on which the Russian satellite nations were prepared to do business with Tito's country. For one tractor, Poland or Czechoslovakia asked 377 tons of bauxite; for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Great Schism | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

But when Conductor Serge Koussevitzky got it under way, the audience found No. 2 not at all hard to like. It opened with a quiet conversation between two clarinets-"the loneliest music I know" -symbolizing Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lonely Music | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

All for Love. Test Pilot Yeager knew all this when he prepared to fly the Air Force's odd little Bell speedster. He took over the X-1 from a civilian test pilot, Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin, who had flown the ominous little ship at Mach .8 (eight-tenths of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Over 100 freshmen mobbed the University Information Office Saturday morning and quickly exhausted its supply of catalogs. The Weld Hall office has reloaded, however, and is prepared to distribute the green-covered booklets to all students who want them.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49-50 Catalog Is Out Listing New Changes | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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