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...police. Since most of the Faculty were in the quieter reaches of New England, and the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in St. Louis had claimed most of University Hall's occupants, few of those at tomorrow's Faculty meeting can be expected to realize how unique last Thursday's rumpus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot Policy: I | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

...five-bedroom, castle-like stone house he and Lila built on a bluff above a small lake five miles from the Digest. They have little social life outside occasional cocktail parties for the staff. In the evening, after dinner, they like to dance for 15 minutes in their rumpus room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Common Touch | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

When Louis J. Zerbee is not turning out garden and rumpus-room furniture in his Bellefontaine, Ohio factory, his thoughts rise far above such earthly pursuits. They soar to the stars. Seventeen years ago he went off on a vacation to his summer home at Indian Lake, where there was no telephone, and studied astronomy for relaxation. He didn't enjoy all the figuring, and when he lay on his back in the yard at night, and watched the stars sailing over Ohio, he felt sorry for seagoing navigators who must plot their ships' position by means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Figure-Killer | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...long after that, CBS raided NBC's radio shows, snatched away such top stars as Jack Benny, Amos & Andy. At the time NBC lost the stars, it looked as if it would be hard hit. But Sarnoff has a way of coming out ahead, despite defeats. After the rumpus over the long-playing records died down, business for all record companies, including RCA, picked up. Thanks to the astounding spread of television, the network has hardly missed its radio stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: The General | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...latest instalment on our political debt came two weeks ago with a rumpus which left pro-American Premier Razmara dead, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company almost nationalized, and Iranian nationalism more rabid than ever. The United States policy of supporting any government that opposed Communism had backfired completely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uncle Sam and the Forty Thieves | 3/29/1951 | See Source »

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