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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deerfield Academy's lacrosse team displayed all the power they were reputed to possess yesterday afternoon as they defeated the Harvard Freshmen by a 17 to 1 score on the Business School field. Paul Davidson scored the lone Crimson tally to save his team from a complete whitewash...
...ready for the public. In Westminster's Central Hall, he delivered himself of the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime and of four days in Britain. The Truman Doctrine, he declared, is a "one-way road to war"; Britain's destiny is to "save the world" by refusing to support the Truman Doctrine, by refusing to side with the U.S. against Russia...
Lawrence S. Thompson's Notes on Bibliokleptomania, an informative "review of centuries of thievery" which shows that neither age nor instruction can reform the absent-minded book borrower or save the true bibliophile from the temptation to pick up and pocket volumes that catch his fancy. One of history's most eminent bibliokleptomaniacs seems to have been Cardinal Pamfili (who later became Pope Innocent X). Charged one day with book-lifting from a private library, the book-loving Cardinal denied the charge with such fury that-the stolen volume fell from beneath his robes with a resounding crash...
...Louis Armstrong, at forty-seven, was still a vibrant, entrancing stage personality with a beautifully phrased trumpet and a voice that had lost none of its pre-war quality. It also became clear that his band was too loud. The high points came on the old Armstrong milestones like "Save It Pretty Mama" and "Ain't Misbehavin'" on which Louis sounded just about the same as he has for the last fifteen years...
Heading the bandwagon faction last week was His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner. Bikaner, an expert shot who has decked his halls with heads and skins of 75 species of game shot in twelve countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session...