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Officials of the local Phillips Brooks House blood drive have privately condemned the Red Cross for "singular lack of cooperation and efficiency," the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Blood drive leaders are known to believe that from 100 to 150 more plats of blood could have been collected had the Red Cross done a competent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Drive Officials Hit Red Cross as Inefficient | 12/11/1951 | See Source »

...speech to NATO, he sometimes sounded-as he certainly had a right to-like a man talking to an audience on the other side of the Atlantic. There was an increased use of rolling, majestic phrases and correspondents pounced on the sudden prominence of the first-person singular. (Sample: "I have never sought the role of a philosopher; most certainly I have never had any reputation as such. But I submit that any man . . .") Commented Paris' Le Monde: "His first [speech] as candidate for the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Clues | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...abandoning his familiar, single-purpose approach. Instead of dealing with the story of one aspect of life as seen through the eyes of one person at one point in his life, Moravia attempts to show the metamorphosis of a man from one philosophy to another through a series of singular, often disjointed, events. The evolution is further confused by detailed descriptions of the other characters which have little to do with the theme...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Destiny Leaves Man No Innocence | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

...rest of the first-string line, like most of the squad is composed of veterans. In fact, this particular Cornell aggregation is singular in that few sophomores are even included in the squad list. Whether or not this will mean a decline for the Bears next year is something no one can predict...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Cornell's Eleven Has it All | 10/13/1951 | See Source »

...Singular Clue. In Memphis, cops nabbed Robert Tabron as a car thief when they noticed that he was 1) driving around alone, 2) carrying a "Just Married" sign on the rear bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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