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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continuing the Foster reign at the helm of the squash team, Charles Henry Wheelwright Foster H '51 of Charles River and Adams House was elected squash captain yesterday for next year. He replaces his brother Hugh, in taking over the same position that another brother, Adam, held for the 1947-48 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Foster Takes Over Squash Captaincy from His Brother, Hugh | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

...murder "with malice aforethought." Police later picked up Louis Harrison, Cyclops of the Pell City Klan and athletic director of the big Avondale textile mills. He gave cops a list of members in his Klavern. This time it looked as if the Klan might not get away with its reign of terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: With Malice Aforethought | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...Orthodox Church has about 7,000,000 followers, and the Roman Catholic Church, strongest in Croatia and Slovenia, has about 6,000,000. The two-churches have maintained a solid front, but it is the Roman Catholic Church which has seen Associated Press more of the reign of terror and has also resisted more fiercely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...first time in the 42 years of his reign, Sweden's King Gustaf V, 91, was too ill to make his annual speech at the opening of Parliament. The speech was read by his son, bespectacled Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Many of his colleagues, while admitting that he is a great mathematician, accuse him of sensationalism. Wiener's admirers reply that such bickering is only to be expected in a field as lively as cybernetics. Peace does not reign in a science, they say, until its peaks and valleys have worn to a featureless peneplain grazed by placid ruminants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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