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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Believe the Opposite. "A woman alone at a bar usually expects to meet someone -anyone," he wrote. "Pick girl who wears glasses. Start off by asking a woman what she thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world . . . Believe just the opposite of what people say, especially men, and you will be right 98% of the time . . . Gambling diverts men faster than lechery . . . Love, luck, etc. return in cycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Convict's Dream | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...goals in the first period gave Harvard an early start, and the team eased along from there, controlling the ball in Army zone most of the time. It was a far better Crimson forward attack than the one which feebly opposed Cornell and Amherst and lost during the past week...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Soccer Squad Whips Cadets In 3-1 Contest | 10/16/1949 | See Source »

This season got off to a bad start when plans for a trip to Stanford failed, through no fault of a committee composed of Borgatti and William J. Reinhardt '45, drum major, who worked all during the past summer and missed their goal by only a small margin...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Band Marks Three Musical Decades | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...Junior Assistant jobs start at a salary of $2,974 a year, with the usual Civil Service promotions and benefits. The jobs include work is almost every field, from astronomy and forestry to social science analysis and legal assistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gov't Test Offers Jobs for Seniors | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...were commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation to write an American music drama, you would start looking for a play with intense dramatic interest. You would also do well to choose something set in a locale with a musical idiom...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

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