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...nation, the Senator does practically everything an unwilling aspirant can do, except milk a cow. In Virginia he uses a mushmouf accent; in Texas he lines it with rawhide. In a union hall, wearing a miner's cap, he shouts for an eight-day wage, a two-day week; at a discreet banquet for bankers, he whispers for a two-day wage, an eight-day week. Elsewhere, discussing the problems of inflation and deflation, he takes his stand fearlessly, without compromise, "For Flation." He also picks up an honorary Ph.D. from the Edgar L. Eubanks College of Animal Husbandry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...two-day, 14-race sailing series found the Harvard crews one point ahead of Yale and in fourth spot in the nine team regatta. George Washington University won the series, with M.I.T. second and Brown third, seven points in front of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachtsmen Take Fourth Place In Potomac Frostbite Regatta | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Students from thirty-five college in New England, including Harvard, have been invited to attend the two-day meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neibuhr to Speak to Meeting of SDA, ADA | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

...largest vote ever cast on any issue in the history of the Annex, 802 undergraduates -- approximately 83 percent of the student body -- marked affirmative ballots. Thirty-six voters dissented; 126 'Cliffedwellers failed to vote in the two-day balloting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.S.A. Charter Gains Record Radcliffe Vote | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

Last week, Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and the League of Composers combined to pay tribute to Composer Ernest Bloch. Juilliard faculty members and students played his rich, rhapsodic chamber music and orchestral compositions (including the now famed Schelomo) in a two-day festival. Composer Bloch, now 67 and clean-shaven, has never written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tribute in Absentia | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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