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Radcliffe students, in contrast to Harvard's negative answers to all three proposals for action suggested in the Young Progressives' "Peace Poll," voted in favor of two of the three suggested steps. Thirteen percent of the school turned in ballots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Union to Test Results of YP's Poll | 3/15/1951 | See Source »

...Thirteen labor bosses, including C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, James Carey, Walter Reuther, A.F.L.'s William Green, George Meany and Dan Tracy, walked out of the mobilization program. They were admittedly acting mainly for dramatic effect. "In no other way," said labor, "can we effectively impress upon the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated." The only labor leader left in an advisory capacity: John L. Lewis, quietly smirking and, like Tar-Baby, saying nothin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Second Ultimatum | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...part of the 23rd Regimental Combat Team at Chipyong last month, the French battalion in Korea fought a bloody, victorious battle against three Red Chinese divisions (TIME, Feb. 26). Thirteen hundred enemy dead were counted in front of the U.N. lines, the majority in front of the French positions. Said the 23rd's commander, Lieut. Colonel John H. Chiles: "The French are some of the fightingest men I have ever seen. When they attack a position, they carry it. When they hold a position, they hold it. When you put them some place, you don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Distinguished Unit | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...second place between Eliot, Leverett, and Lowell, each having nine wins and five losses. Winthrop holds fifth position with eight and six, while Dunster is sixth with six and eight. Dudley has a four and ten record to take the seventh spot, and Adams, with one and thirteen is on the bottom. 'B' league results have not yet been tabulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthews Edges Stoughton Five, Gains Yardling Crown | 3/8/1951 | See Source »

Thought & Belief. Nowadays, pretty close to being the recognized No. 1 citizen of Dallas, Umphrey Lee is a busy man. He belongs to such potent organizations as the Citizens' Council, the organization of businessmen without whom nothing can be done in Dallas, and the ultra-select Thirteen Club, a group of 13 who get together periodically to hash over world and local problems. Nonsmoking, nondrinking, Lee has no advice to thrust on those who do. He likes to tell of one friend who drinks deeply and then often calls Lee up to tell him what's wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Newest Shining Wonder | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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