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...nature of the "contest" for which said photograph was submitted. My political aspirations are in no way to be connected with the World Federalists Group and I have no intention of going through with this "contest" as it is extremely distasteful to me to be auctioned off like a sack of potatoes to the man who can write the best letter of why he is not going to the dance. Furthermore, I am not "Miss Radeliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

...official proceedings, broadcast over the 'Poon's public address system, were somewhat marred by rival CRIMSON loudspeakers established in adjoining Adams and Lowell rooms. Later, after the members of the newly-formed "State of Lampoon" had retired behind their barbed wire and sawdust sack fortifications, these barricades were breached by a determined charge, which reached the front door of the building and obtained half of the "State of Lampoon" banner before the cessation of hostilities...

Author: By John R.W. Smail, | Title: 'Spring Rioting' by Mob Marks Lampoon's Rally | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...matter seemed to be a bit of contract fine print that club owners like to call the cornerstone of big-time baseball: the so-called "reserve clause" that binds a player to his club for his baseball life-or until the club chooses to trade, sell or sack him. Purpose: to prevent a few rich clubs from hiring all the talent-as they well might if each ballplayer were always free to sell his services in the highest market. Cornerstone or not, two out of three judges decided that the reserve clause looked like peonage. They ordered the lower court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball at the Bar | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Secretary of State Dean Acheson was spending a quiet Sunday puttering around his Maryland farm when he first learned of the "peace offer" from Moscow. Joseph Stalin had dug into his mail sack of questions indefatigably asked by U.S. news correspondents. He picked out a tempting set sent in by I.N.S. Correspondent J. Kingsbury Smith, representing William Randolph Hearst. As a result, Hearstling Smith had a news beat, and Stalin had a good propaganda story circulated for him by the free U.S. press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Diplomacy by Handout | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...remained for Paul Sack '48 to defeat the commercialism in the Valentine field. Sack, simple and primitive at heart, will present his would-be mato with a 200-pound granite tombstone with the words "To my Valentine, Paul" engraved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prim Valentine's Day Faces College, but Romans Reveled | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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