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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dick Harlow as a colorful gent who could always use a few more good football players. Just about the time that he was preparing his eleven for his almost annual Yale debacle, conjecture would reach the public prints on how Harvard could lure these few more good football players to Cambridge...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...suspected communism--requires more than a hasty attack under the name of a temporary group. Any affirmation of the advantages of democratic government must rest on positive ideas, not on random shots at the other side--and the Soviets will certainly make propaganda grist--of this weekend. We must use propaganda ourselves, and use it well, which is something that neither Schlesinger nor the State Department apparently considered when they went after the Reds in the Waldorf-Astoria woodpile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foul Ball | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

After Due Consideration. In Florence, S.C., Hattie Johnson and John Perkins decided to make use of the marriage license they took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Ocean. "The air," wrote Sir George Cayley, an 18th Century plane designer (who never got off the ground), "is an uninterrupted, navigable ocean that comes to the threshold of every man's door." It remained for Trippe to use the air to build an empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...increase their rents freely up to an additional 30 percent, with all boosts over that level being reported to the office of the Housing Expeditor. Would that cause added inflation? Far from it; the additional money would be much better off in the hands of the landlord who would use it to renovate his property or to put up new housing . . . Claude G. Richie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landlords Have Rights | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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