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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had more cows' tails wrapped around my ears in fly time than any other Senator." boasted North Dakota's Milton Young. "I am sure that I have custom-threshed more hours than all the rest of the members put together, and no doubt spike-pitched more hours than any other Senator. I doubt if more than a dozen members of the Senate even know what spike-pitching means." Other Senators might indeed be less knowing than Wheat Farmer Young about custom-threshing and spike-pitching.-But they did know plenty about the wants and needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Farmer's Friends | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...sure I've often pitied a poor girl," said Mrs. Warren, speaking from experience, "tired out and in low spirits, having to please some man . . . [Still] it's far better than any other employment open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Planets in the Sky | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...been incautious, if not downright foolhardy, in scheduling a game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Obsession | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Woman of the World | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Their story runs like this: Goode P. Davis '52 said to Charles P. Dribben '51 early this week, "How would you like a date with Janet Leigh?" Dribben, whose intended Army game date at Radcliffe had turned him down, said, "Sure, let's call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Students Unable to Snare Leigh | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

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