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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gambling fraternity has labeled the game a toss-up. This may seem peculiar to some people who note that the Crimson eleven is roughly the same one which whipped Yale decisively last year. But Harvard has suffered from the trials of a schedule that included outside games with Army and Stanford and no breathers. The primary result of this backbreaking schedule is the season record of one win and an injury list which rivals that of the Lost Battalion...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Struggles to Redeem Season Today in 66th Encounter with Yale | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

This should be an easy one for the Bunnies, who got off to a shaky start but finished their last five games with four wins and a tie. The Proxies of Timothy Dwight haven't seem a victory yet and aren't likely to go very far through Leverett's tight defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Football Teams Face Yale College Squads Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

With specific reference to the 11 Communists, Howe commented, "I may be very innocent, but it doesn't seem to the that they present a 'clear and present danger' to the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court May Throw Out Convictions of Reds, Howe Says | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Closing Door," contains little humor, and what there is could easily be done away with. The dialogue doesn't seem very important, but serves the purposes of the plot well enough. The plot, by the way, concerns an unemployed man who has lost faith in himself and is hovering on the brink of insanity. His loving and loyal wife is trying to get him into an asylum for treatment when the play begins. The entire play covers only the next few hours...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...leading bid for Academy Award honors-and the first job at the studio to be signed by Producer Dore Schary-stacks up well against such recent combat films as Task Force and Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a put-up job. Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow sticks to everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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