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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weird collection of refugees from the minors did not hit, field, hustle or get paid as big-leaguers should. As the season ended (with the Senators 47 games behind), even some of the staunchest fans were boycotting Griffith Stadium. Penny-pinching old (79) Clark Griffith, who had met similar crises in the past simply by firing the manager, knew that it would not be enough this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road to Nowhere | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Under the terms of the Fulbright Act, over 800 American men and women will receive grants next year for graduate study or teaching positions abroad; in return foreign nationals will come to the United States for similar purposes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Heads Fulbright Scholarship Committee | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...legislature limited new municipalities to a choice of five kinds of charters, labeling the types Plans A, B, C, D and E. Under the 1938 law already incorporated cities could change their charter to one of these by ballot, if they wished. Only Boston, which has a government similar to that outlined in Plan B was denied this privilege...

Author: By Rudolph Kass and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Political Struggle In Cambridge... | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

When Moritz left Harvard in August for a similar post at Cleveland's Western Reserve University, Massachusetts medical examiners gave him a big sender be installing a bronno plaque in the Department's library. The plaque commemorates "ten years of service which have given legal medicine a new integrity and stature in the Commonwealth...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Legal Medicine Probes Deaths, Gets Results | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...plight of the freshman coach in any sport is especially pathetic. This is proven by mere analogy to a varsity coach who develops a player for three years and then loses him to graduation when he is at peak performance. The freshman coach experiences a similar loss at the end of one season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

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