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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five out of seven passes, two of them for touchdowns, and by once punting the ball 55 yards. He also carried the ball for a third score. Lowenstein is expected to contribute to Harvard's passing attack next fall; but unless Jim Kenary's, Jimmy Noouan's and/or Chuck Roach's dead throwing arms return from Limbo by next September, he is Harvard's passing attack...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey's Squad, With 4 New Faces, Practices Under Game Conditions | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...beginning. He dallies with a few truisms (that the New England aristocracy isn't much of an aristocracy, and that much of Harvard's "apathy" is the fault of the Clubs), but his case is confused, contradictory in places, and concludes bitterly by comparing the System to "a roach on the wall...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...Hollywood, veteran Moviemaker Hal Roach became an enthusiastic convert to TV. He announced that his 15-acre Culver City studios (where Joan of Arc was filmed) will be turned over exclusively to the production of TV shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hisses & Cheers | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...anonymously lit fire started at 11:30 p.m., drawing heads from all the windows in the yard and screams of delight from the occupants. Lowell House Janitor A1 Roach hurried to the scene with a bucket and the fire died in 15 minutes without any damage resulting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trumpet Blows as Lowell Ashes Cool | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

Western Steel. In Pittsburg, Calif., Columbia Steel Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary, opened a new $25 million sheet and tin-plate plant which will add 325,000 tons a year to West Coast steel capacity. Columbia will also get a new president, Alden G. Roach, 47, who had joined Big Steel when it bought his Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd. (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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