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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Crimson swept both BU and BC by 9 to 0 scores last week, the outcome of today's match is by no means certain. The varsity may rate the edge, but recent showers have cut down practice time, and some of last week's momentum may have been lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Expects No Walkaway in Brown Match | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

Last year's tennis team trounced the Browns, but so far this season there is nothing on which to rate the current Bruin squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Expects No Walkaway in Brown Match | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Black Market Kaputt | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Bevan group had given some ground to the go-slow faction headed by Herbert Morrison. Labor issued the first draft of the platform on which it hopes to be re-elected next year, and the gist was that the Socialist bicycle would move forward at a greatly reduced rate of speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: 27 Men on a Bicycle | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox-son) and rescues King Arthur's beautiful niece (Rhonda Fleming) with his tongue conspicuously in his cheek. To underline his bare-faced parody of a second-rate Bing Crosby, he also sings a few typically Crosby tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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