Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council and the HLU promised $100 and $50 more respectively should the 'Cliffe freshmen fall short of their quota. The freshmen hope that a dance with Harvard tomorrow evening in the Annex gymnasium will provide the remaining amount...
...succeeded in juggling the white hot national health issue with a dexterity amazing even for so nimble fingered veterans of the political sleight of hand circuit as fill the Capital halls. Last Saturday ringmaster Harry C. Truman informed the boys that it was time to cut the act short...
Died. Sir Bernard Pares, 82, historian and authority on Russia; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. British-born, non-Communist Sir Bernard (George V knighted him in 1919 for helping the short-lived pro-Allied Kerensky government) visited Russia more than 20 times, was firmly convinced that Stalin (unlike Lenin and Trotsky) was a patriot interested only in his own country's security (rather than ia world revolution and Communist domination...
...knows it, will be wiped out by TV within three years. Speaking to the convention in the gilt and glitter of the Stevens' ballroom, FCCommissioner Wayne Coy concurred. "The essential difference between Mr. Aylesworth and me is one of time," said Coy. "His three years seems much too short...
Quartet. Four unrelated short stories by Somerset Maugham; a British-made film of wit and compassion (TIME...