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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearings on the proposed measure start on March 28 before the Education Committee of the General Court in Gardiner Auditorium of the State House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Red Teachers Bill To Get Wording Change | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...flop. Said Avro Managing Director Sir Roy Dobson: "I will have to have a contract written in rock before I will build another civil aircraft. I would like to see the whole lot [of Tudors] swept out and burned so that we can forget this ghastly chapter and start again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last of the Tudor IVs | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Died. A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent, 75, multimillionaire radio manufacturer; in Los Angeles. The first big-time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Garrick was thought especially successful as Hamlet; his start of terror at seeing the ghost was considered one of the 18th Century stage's great moments. Only the more critical Johnson refused to 'be impressed. Asked Boswell once: "Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does if you saw a ghost?" "I hope not," Johnson replied. "If I did, I should frighten the ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lively Davy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Wrestling breathes its absolute last for the year after the House championships, which start today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston Finishes Tourney as East's 3rd Best Heavyweight | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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