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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Future concerts of the Pierian will be at the Tedesco Country Club in Swampscott on March 23 and at Colby Junior College on April 19, as the orchestra intensified its rehearsals by playing at least one piece by sight reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Student Composition to Be Played in Sanders | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...Tampa the crowd edged in closer to see Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias whack out a golf ball. It was a sight all right, but there were risks; the Babe, among her other great talents, has a sharp tongue. Said she to the crowd: "I know I'm good, but not this good. I have to have room to hit the ball." As the gallery fell back, she took a look toward the flag, waggled once, and sent the ball flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whatta Woman | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Even at 32, a little past his prime, Joe Louis was still too good for his own good. There wasn't an able-bodied challenger in sight. And Big Joe's top-heavy expenses went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money Ain't Everything | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...their heavy gloves-the better to bash an enemy nose. Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rocket | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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