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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forward for the final round of this year's arguments in the Law School's traditional Ames Competition. Under the direction of Albert L. Goldman 3L, the Board of Student Advisors has set August 29 as the date for the final and three prominent federal judges have agreed to sit on the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Debaters Prepare for Final Scrap in 'Commonwealth of Ames' | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...Miss Maybank agreed to comment on "anything but the atomic bomb." Pursuing Senator Bilbo further, she said in her sweet southern drawl, "He always wears a flower in his buttonhole," but qualified her remarks somewhat by adding, "Of course, I've only seen him when he was about to sit down to a steak dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deep South Finds Voice in Yankee Domain as 'Cliffegirl Backs Bilbo | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

Graydon: I wish to appeal. . . Liberals (in chorus): Sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Democracy in Action | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Helen Hayes & Daughter Mary MacArthur made believe together at the Bucks County Playhouse. It was 16-year-old Mary's first big part-Amy in J. M. Barrie's Alice Sit-by-the-Fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...transmute all women into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign checks and documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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