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The varsity swimmers can stop coasting now. Yesterday's 52 to 23 victory at Springfield was the last of the easy meets for 1951. Navy, Brown, Princeton, and Dartmouth can make the next two weeks unpleasant for Hal Ulen's unbeaten squad.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Triumph, But Big Meet Looms Ahead | 2/15/1951 | See Source »

Life Is Terrible. For a man who seems to have found life usually unpleasant and often terrible, Algernon Blackwood has lived quite a lot of it. He was born into the British upper classes, the son of the Duchess of Manchester and her second husband, a gentleman usher to Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elsewhere & Otherwise | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Pregnenolone. Some doctors reported that half of their arthritis patients were helped by pregnenolone. Some said they got no results at all. Pregnenolone's great advantage: it does not have the unpleasant "side effects" of cortisone and ACTH, its leading rivals in the treatment of arthritis. It is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Key of Life | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Lewis dealt mostly in what one critic has called "the medium-priced emotions." He was unconsciously, gushingly funny when he wrote about love. His women were unconvincing, unpleasant or foolish. His one real hero was Dr. Martin Arrowsmith, a knight of the test tubes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: SINCLAIR LEWIS: 1885-1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

"Cluttered & Tangled." To ex-Schoolmaster Whitman, U.S. education in the mid-19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Critic of Rule & Rote | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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