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Bill Brooks' Yardling swimmers, piling up an early lead, had little difficulty in downing the Engineer squad. 50-yard freestyler Burke, 100-yard backstroker Gwynne, 200-yard freestyler Hills, and 100-yard freestyler Moffat took the four Crimson first places. The team of Buffington, Reinohl, Sherwood, and Tolf won the 200-yard relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '51 Swimmers Down M.I.T. | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...command lists Samuel M. Felton '48 as battalion sub-commander with the Cadet rank of Lieutenant. Dewey G. Rushford '48 rates next as battalion adjutant with the rank of Lieutenant, j.g. with Frank, Jr. '48 as battalion lieutenant with the rank of Ensign. John G. Flint, Jr. '48 and Sherwood C. Chillingworth '49 are the company commandants for the naval unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadet Officers Announced in Reserve Corps | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in the Birth of a Nation.' " The Torrents of Spring also informs the public of the weaknesses and strengths of Sherwood Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Canby writes with complacency of having "stuck his neck out" in a favorable review of one of Sherwood Anderson's early books. He also held out alone on the Book-of-the-Month Club jury for Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. But such bravado was obviously rare. For Canby is not a daring or a penetrating critic. On the other hand, by his industry, fluency, and sincere impulse to "pass on sound values to the reading public," he made a place for himself in his period. He is as competent as any prophet to observe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Wilmington to Date | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oscars Abroad | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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