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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for the proposed Glee Club tour of Northern Europe next summer are taking shape but still have a long way to go, graduate manager Barr Peterson '47, 1GB, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Plans Non-Profit Tour Of North Europe | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...Permanent Class Committee began to take shape last night when the nominating committee gave 36 men places on next week's ballot. Additional men may be added by 25-name petitions up to 10 o'clock tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 36 Man Ballot Presented for '48 Class Vote | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...National League had one clear superiority to the rival All-America: none of its teams was in so poor shape as the badly-run Brooklyn Dodgers, or the Chicago Rockets, who have won only one game all season. The Nationals' two biggest stars, like the league itself, have been around for years. Sammy Baugh, 33, playing his eleventh season for the Washington Redskins, seemed to throw a football better every year. Though the Redskins are only one step out of the National League cellar, Baugh tops the league with 2,438 yards gained by passing. Right behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turnstiles & Touchdowns | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Osborne] mounted on turntables so that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony led by a Highland attendant." When she died, "the Edwardian era had arrived in the genial shape of my grandfather; and the effect . . . was the same ... as if a Viennese hussar had suddenly burst into an English vicarage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Duke of Windsor, Journalist | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...could scarcely force the plea between his chattering teeth. He was glazed with sweat. ". . . His body assumed without shame the very shape of fear. In his cringing motions, however, there were indications of an extreme fineness of intellect, unfoldings of a lacework of perceptions, of associations, of interpretations, which made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple unimproved beech-mast of the world. No matter how he stooped and wavered, out of his head proceeded mental patterns intricate and brilliant as the etchings of frost on a winter pane. Surely the others, the Nazi-Fascists, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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