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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power of Speech. In North Adams, Mass., William Horsfall heard a cry for help from a burning apartment house, rushed in, rescued the sole occupant: a parrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Everyone at Harvard has treated me wonderfully," Boston said last night, "and my sole reason for leaving is that the position at Army seems a better opportunity...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Army Claims Chief Boston As Assistant Football Coach | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard Savoyard Society, an unofficial, rapidly growing local organization (of which I am present sole member) has unanimously voted publicly to express its tremendous appreciation of WHRV for broadcasting the Gilbert & Sullivan Orgy on Sunday thus bringing a large dose of culture to the masses. However, we also have the unpleasant task of informing the announcer who constantly referred to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as the "DuhOily Carte Opera Company," that by vote of the Society, he has been placed on The List. May he never be missed. Solemnly, The Harvard Savoyard Society, per Stephen O. Saxe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oily | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

...Author Edward Ingram Watkin. The traditional Catholic criteria for determining when and whether a war is "just," says he, are meaningless under modern conditions. Only a nation's top leaders could possibly know enough of the facts to decide. But "the justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial bombing as must involve the slaughter and maiming of innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Just War? | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...sand wedge is the club most novices neglect. Even when a duffer does buy one, he usually gets the wrong kind. He should choose one with a wide flange on the sole of the club. It makes one of golf's toughest shots (coming out of traps and bunkers) easy. It also helps make pitch shots simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tips from Hogan | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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