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Dartmouth scored twice more in the first eight minutes of the second period, once on a push shot in a scuffle in front of the cage, and then on a patented Riley crossover slap-shot with Joe scoring and Billy assisting. With 7:26 of the second period gone, the Indians were through scoring...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Loses To Big Green In 4-3 Battle | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

...Prime Minister and leader of the reigning Liberal Party. He was tense and nervous. Directly across the aisle from him sat George Alexander Drew, the new boss of the rival Progressive Conservative Party. St. Laurent started to read the traditional greeting. It turned out to be a backhanded slap at Conservative Party policy. "Politics . . . cheap politics," cried the Tory M.P.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Enter George Drew | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...move as a means of assimilating foreigners into the national life, and of helping to stop the drain on foreign exchange. But to Argentina's large (40,000) and tweedy British colony, and to its small, compact contingent of North American businessmen, the proposal was an unmistakable slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Unveiling | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...trade war, Frank M. Folsom, president of the Radio Corporation of America, introduced a new-type long-playing record last Tuesday that plunged the record industry into hopeless confusion. Columbia, ballyhooing an entire symphony on one record at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, was given a sudden slap in the face by RCA, which claims its speed of 45 r.p.m. is the best for "completely distortion-free music of unprecedented brilliance and clarity of tone...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: 78-33-45-Yipe | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

With this view many working newsmen wholeheartedly disagreed; they felt that such a policy would be an open invitation to military men to slap the "top-secret" stamp on matters of legitimate public interest. Such newsmen felt that the press has the right to know what is going on; it should be responsible for keeping vital military secrets in peacetime just as it did in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Time for Censors | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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