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...well aware that opinions have been expressed with great frequency and violence that the defense of Europe by ground forces is impossible . . . As to the latter (military considerations) I should like to remind you . . . that Dr. Vannevar Bush, who has considerable knowledge of modern weapons, believes that the technological advances of recent years enormously favor the defense of land positions against mechanized and armored troops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from Conant's Talk About Europe | 5/18/1951 | See Source »

...Yankees' Gil McDougald, 22, an infielder up from Beaumont, Texas, whose batting average (.336) and willowy grace remind some experts of the great Pie Traynor; and Righthander Tom Morgan, 20, a big, stolid kid who won 17 games for Binghamton, N.Y. (Class A) last season. With remarkable rookie control (two walks), Morgan has pitched 13 consecutive scoreless innings for the Yankees in spring training games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Great Expectations | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Professor McKay said the Sunday travel supplements of newspapers remind him "of the one-sided nature of a society which sends its business leaders--not to speak of university administrators, reluctantly heeding the winter call of Florida alumni--to mend their nerves on Florida beaches while we professors inhale each other's germs in the fetid air of Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Teachers Differ on One Most Needed Law, Call for Balanced Budget, Aid for Indigent Profs | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plenty of Sleeping Pills | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Collective Security. Above the intemperate outcry that beat upon the Anglo-American rock rose a steadier voice. London's Economist printed a deadpan parody to remind Britons that the principle of collective security for the free world is the same, East or West. Under the future dateline, "Lake Success, January 22, 1952," the Economist reported another, imaginary "ceasefire debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Troubled Rock | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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