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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Charles Kiorpes crushed Bill Bluemel of the Crimson by 13 points, winning 16 to 3 at the 121-pound class. Columbia's Sasha Komsa pinned Pete Knox in 7:19 of the third period with a further arm and crotch hold in the next class up the weight scale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Wrestlers Swamp Crimson, 22-6 | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

France is building an "atomic village" for 2,000 workers at Saclay, ten miles southwest of Paris, and has a large-scale program headed by Nobel Prizewinner (and Communist Party member) Frederic Joliot-Curie; his staff includes several men who helped plan the Chalk River project. Britain has set up five centers, with experimental piles near Oxford, and has already spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ATOMIC ACTIVITY | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

From this point on, The Tower of Babel becomes a ghastly sequence of horrors- or, as some may see it, a small-scale presentation of the fate of pure intellect in the clutches of today's harsh world. Slowly, inexorably, the new Mrs. Kien invades her hapless husband's ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Pi in the Sky | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...sixty million jobs, but an opportunity for every graduate to find employment to his liking is the goal of the University Office of Student Employment, now moving into full scale operation in its second year of business. A free service to any College senior, it is designed to serve men who wish employment after graduation without first attending graduate school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Employment Office Acts as Liaison Between Seniors and World of Big Business | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

Both the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and T.W.A. seemed satisfied with the board's decisions, which they had agreed in advance to accept. Most other airlines expected that the new wage scale would provide a pattern for all airlines. For T.W.A. and the other major airlines, the increases would be moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Outlook: Drab | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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