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...playing a double round-robin schedule this year." he said, "so that each House will compete in 14 games instead of the customary seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Sixes Have Heavy Schedule; Use Skating Club | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

...fiction may be in the doldrums, but good novels continue to come out of postwar Italy. The latest, and one of the best, is The Brigand, a tragic story of an army veteran who tries to play Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood & Justice | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Along with his more prolific brother, Harry B. Smith, who died in 1936, still remembered for his lyrics (They Wouldn't Believe Me; The Sheik of Araby) and librettos (Robin Hood; The Serenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...former course was out because the H-Y-P boys like to avoid any possibility of falling into a formal Ivy League. These colleges, particularly Harvard and Yale, don't want to be forced into a formal round-robin circuit in which they'd have to play everyone. These two, for example, don't happen to like Penn's obvious attempts to field a Big Time team, and prefer not to play the Quakers at all. Furthermore, if all the league were included in this statement it would represent the most blatant act of athletic hypocrisy since Villanova was heaved...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

...turnips cries / Cry not when his father dies / It is proof that he would rather / Have a turnip than his father"). Many were satire. Some rhyme scholars believe that the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry-popularly known as the "Robinocracy"-gave rise to "Who killed Cock Robin?", and that Georgie Porgie was really King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Started Cock Robin? | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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