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...changes are at present in the offing in the freshmen's starting lineup. Louis McCagg is at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark will steer, yell stroke, and generally direct activities from the coxswain's post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: General Optimism Shrouds '52 Crew Opener | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Died. Henry Warner Slocum, 86, two-time U.S. national tennis champion (1888-89), the second man to hold the title; after long illness; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...drowned in the Kiangya sinking was about 2,750. Last month another (unidentified) Chinese vessel, evacuating troops from Manchuria, went down with 6,000 aboard. Among the greatest maritime disasters hitherto recorded: the Titanic (1912), which went down with 1,517; the Lusitania (1915) with 1,198; the General Slocum (1904) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Many of Us | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...DODGERS (288 pp.)-Elmer L Irey, as told to William J. Slocum-Greenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...months before his death, Irey (who had always discouraged publicity) was persuaded by a publisher to tell his story to William J. Slocum. The Tax Dodgers points up one of the unpleasantly ironical facts of political life in the U.S.: that pimps (like Bioff), murderers, political racketeers and mobsters can work at their trades with impunity, and are seldom brought to book for their most serious crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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