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BC, which beat St. Anselm's in the second game of last Saturday's double header, has impressed Shepard as being one of the best ball-handling teams in the East. The Eagles have a swift and shifty forward, Dick Fitzgerald, who prowled all over the court against St. Anselm...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Varsity Cagers Meet Fast Eagles in Garden Tonight | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Uranium is a tricky element. As it comes from the mines, it contains only .7% of the active isotope U-235, whose atoms "fission" (split in two) with a big release of energy. Nearly all the rest is 11-238, an idle isotope which will not fission naturally, though its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Breeding Atoms | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Albums are a tricky business--that is quite apparent. Perhaps yearbooks will be better.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voice From the Past | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Dr. Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgery at Duke University, had relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug for Ulcers | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Chicago Deadline (Paramount) is a lagging, maudlin movie with a tricky plot that never quite gets untangled. A sentimental reporter (Alan Ladd) who finds a pretty corpse in a cheap hotel is moved to track down the people in her fat address book and find out how she came to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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