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...creaking coffin-and emerged into a new life. In a three-day-long celebration, Aspen (pop. 1,500) marked its rebirth as a skiing center. Colorado's Governor Lee Knous gave Edith Robinson, daughter of Aspenjs mayor, a push off to open the is,000-ft. ski tow, longest in the world (see cut). With six 14,000-foot peaks near by, plenty of dry, powdery snow, and multi-million-dollar backing, Aspen was out to become the top winter-sport playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost on Skis | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Veterans in various stages of khaki dress and nervousness walked into a massive grey building on Manhattan's noisy Seventh Avenue. They came singly and in pairs, in tow of wives, sweethearts, mothers, fathers. On the ninth floor they found a friendly receptionist who took them in hand, ushered them into a pastel green haven with a fascinating array of gleaming gadgets and tweedy psychiatrists. The psychiatrists worked swiftly and efficiently. By nightfall 180 troubled veterans had spilled their principal worries, trooped out. Scrawled on the wall outside was an eloquent parting shot: "Kilroy was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kilroy Was Here | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...right to board the Farmer, and how much the little Elizabete's efforts were worth. According to the existing salvage treaty (signed in 1910), "no remuneration is due if the services rendered have no beneficial result." The Elizabete's skipper thought he could have brought his tow into port. The Ranger's skipper thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black Looks & Curses | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Radcliffe enrollment figures this summer show a trend toward English reading courses, with a secondary preference for Social Relations. Statistics Wednesday placed Comparative Literature 65, Proust, Joyce, and Mann, in the lead with 17 'Cliffedwellers in tow, while English 24a, Shakespearean tragedy, was a close second with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Favors English Courses | 7/12/1946 | See Source »

James Dinsmore Tow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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