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...attempt.began in 1945 when hustling Jim Pfohl, then a 32-year-old music professor at Davidson College, came upon an abandoned summer camp for boys in the woods near Brevard. The lake was a weed patch; the buildings were gone to rack & ruin. Pfohl made a pay-you-later deal with the owners, rebuilt the camp and opened it. After three seasons in the red, he persuaded Brevard's civic leaders to back the camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blue Ridge Beethoven | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...From Rack to Rack...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Biologists Regulate Rats in Research Lab | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...females live in circles. They start in the male rack. Then they go to the pregnancy rack, and then to the maternity rack, and then to the resting rack, and then back to the male rack, and start all over again. At an opportune moment their babies are weaned and deployed among the researchers...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Biologists Regulate Rats in Research Lab | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...pulled up short to keep from ramming a parking meter and headed across the tracks into the light from the store front. The magazine rack was right in front of the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Bowdoin should pose little difficulty. If the Crimson can rack up a substantial lead in the singles, Barnaby expects to substitute lower-rung squad members in the late afternoon doubles for the sake of experience...

Author: By R. JOHNSON Shortlidge, | Title: Bowdoin Tennis Team Due For Pounding from Varsity | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

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