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...second half saw Dunster put on a scoring spurt which carried them 11 points ahead of the sailors. Led by Tom Keene '45, Saul Sherman '47, and Harry Phillips '46, the Funsters hammered away all period at the failing defenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co. H Tames Dunster Team | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

...Washington has known for months that General George C. Marshall is actively annoyed and embarrassed by recurrent Marshall-for-President talk. Last week the Chief of Staff was credited with a quotation rivaling General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected." The New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews reported that "friends" of General Marshall say that if he were "in a position to talk about the topic" he would declare: "I'll be in my grave before I'll be in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better the Grave | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...loss leader," while independent druggists, the backbone of the business, fumed. Brooklyn drug stores strung up banners screaming "We do not carry Pepsodent products"; in California there was a statewide boycott. But at that time any company attempting to set price minimums was in danger of violating the Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Irium-Plated Alger | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Calculation. At the University of Chicago, Sherman Dryer, director of the Mutual Broadcasting System's recent 30-minute simplification of Einstein's relativity theory, calculated that during their six-weeks condensation period his staff had read 25 books, written 121 pages of notes, drunk 85 cups of black coffee, taken 30 aspirins, and used up 22 erasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Infantry Flees. Tanks within the town hugged the buildings to escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Seventeen Days | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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