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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOUDREAU STATUS UNCERTAIN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...Eleanor Roosevelt: "I am beginning to think that, as a political force, labor is somewhat uncertain as a backer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Afterthoughts | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...ought to finish about in the middle if all goes well," Coach Jaakko Mikkola said yesterday, "but we will be unfamiliar with the course." This may the the Crimson harriers' last race, because it is still uncertain whether they will compete in the IC4A meet in New York next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross-Country Team Runs In N.Y. Heptagonals Today | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

Tonight, a Prayer. It was past noon before Amerigo Marescalchi drew the middling lands of Cuocino and the pasture land Serra di Barracco. Still uncertain, he rushed home. When he caught sight of his wife Concetta in the doorway of the small, smoke-darkened room they share with eleven relatives, he cried, "It's Cuocino! It may be not much good as farming land but we can build a house there. It has rocks and I know how to blast stone. It will save us our rent, 2,000 lire a month." Concetta had tears in her eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Bear Must Die | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Crash! The uncertain hamlet of Dogpatch is equipped with standard but movable props, all of them hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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