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From the opening whistle till the end of the second overtime period neither team could establish a clear margin of superiority as the play ebbed from one end of the field to the other. The half found the count Knotted at 0 to 0 with both the Crimson and the Orange and Black guilty of missing several shots at point blank range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Battle Princeton Squad to 1-1 Tie | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction." Not till 1937 did AVCO turn into an honest woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Quick Tricks. V.E., who had made a pile at the age of 28, now set out to lounge as grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...party and the survivors, chilled by cold and rain, waited for the helicopters. Ruth Henderson, a New York Girl Scout executive, gave banjo imitations. Stewardess Jeanne Rook hobbled about, passing out medicines. For New York songwriter Rudy Revil, weeping over his badly burned hands, soldiers raked through the wreckage till they found his latest composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Death in the Fog | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Back & forth, between plateau and lake, the helicopters hopped. Back & forth from lake to Gander the PBYs flew. The shuttle functioned without a flaw-till the very end. Then the PBY bringing out Jeanne Perier, 16, and her brother Etienne, 14 (their mother and sister were killed), blew a tire as it settled on the runway. "What was that?" cried Jeanne. "Just a tire blowing," answered a flyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Death in the Fog | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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