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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert H. Haynes, chairman of the Harvard unit of the Community Chest reports that the University is $5,000 short of its goal of $40,000. This compares favorably with the record of Harvard contributions in previous years, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Fund Campaign Tops $1500 | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

With the Red Feather Drive for the University officially ending tonight, Harvard to still $5000 short of its $40,000 quota, Robert H. Haynes, chairman of the Harvard unit of the Community Chest campaign reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Feather Drive Is $5000 Short of Goal | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Flappers & Cartwheels. The next year, Tallulah got to England, and became an immediate sensation. As a cigarette-smoking, short-skirted vamp, she was a hit in her first play. The part she played set the style for a series of underdressed, sexy roles, including a drunk flapper, a chorus girl, an artist's model, a trollop, and a few unfaithful wives. (She also found time to play Camille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Think. The boss who watches over all these trades plus 1,700 employees and 16 air transports is Orvis Nelson, 41, a brawny airman who flew United Air Lines planes for twelve years. Nelson, an imaginative Minnesotan who writes short stories in his spare time, says: "You don't just sit there and fly. You think." Flying for United, Nelson thought the airlines were overlooking too much contract business. After the war (in which he served as civilian pilot in the Air Transport Command), he and 14 other pilots rented twelve surplus Army planes and later raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Handyman | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...show will plug the Harvard Band's concert performance, "Drumbeats and song," and will include two songs by the "Riffs" and eight short numbers by the Krocodiloes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WBZ Television Show Carries Singing by "Riffs," Krocodiloes | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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