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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lettermen on this year's 47-man football squad will select a successor to Howie Houston from one of the returning junior and sophomore lettermen. In recent years the captain has always been a member of the next senior class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Sports Pick '50 Captains Today | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Unavoidable Delay | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Since the Fourth Republic was launched in December 1946, Charles de Gaulle has loitered not too patiently in the wings, waiting for his chance to make a grand entrance on the French political scene. In recent months he has lived quietly at his home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, leaving occasionally for speeches or visits to his headquarters in Paris, entertaining party strategists and army men. But when Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans) became Premier last month, rumors proliferated about a possible deal between Bidault and De Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man in the Wings | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...recent flurry of articles and letters regarding the NROTC loyalty oath, one vital point seems to have been overlooked. The NROTC, as well as being a part of the Harvard curriculum, is essentially a Navy Organization. To enter the program, one must meet certain scholastic and physical requirements, and to be commissioned, one must meet other requirements during four years of College. The Navy sets these standards so that it can be sure all its Midshipmen are of a certain calibre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Loyalty | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

Such a rebirth has brought the Concentration Dinners to life in some of the Houses in recent years. For four years Leverett House has been gathering one or another group of its twenty-three fields of concentration together once a week for sherry, dinner, and a bull-session with some outstanding men in the field. The turn out has always been good enough to warrant four or five meetings of each field a term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fireside Chat | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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