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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party's executive committee convened. Their purpose: to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate for election this month by the National Assembly. It seemed a foregone conclusion that Chiang would be the candidate for the presidency. The Generalissimo, who presided over the meeting, looked more solemn than usual. Mme. Chiang was in the audience. Then Chiang rose and began to speak, slowly and carefully...
...Switzerland, the United Nations held its biggest international conference-on the world's press. Three hundred and fifty delegates from 67 nations (including 55 U.N. members) could look out last week at lofty, snowcapped peaks as they argued about lofty principles for world freedom of the press. As usual when good, bad & indifferent fellows get together, not all the debates were on an Olympian plane; there was much bitter name-calling about press warmongering, censorship, monopoly and suppression...
...appearance of the magazine is as attractive as usual, although the art work is perhaps less pleasing. A new cover artist, H.F. Koeper has drawn a unique, attractive design...
From the very outset the Princeton game was a flasco: In the first place, an 80 minute game instead of the usual 60 minute contest was played. This was quite legal, for in rugby the game may vary, with anywhere from 25 to 40 minute halves. At the end of 60 minutes of play, the score read 8-all; in the next 20 minutes the Crimson defense collapsed. The heavy Tiger scrum lorded over the Harvard forwards...
Mauran accounted for a conversion kick before he left the game. Princeton broke the usual rugby rules by allowing Harvard to substitute a player at the beginning of the second half in place of Mauran. Coach Jim Nuland came into the game, and soon accounted for another three points by a penalty kick for goal to raise the score to 8-all. It was only then that the Harvard injuries were felt. The forwards were worn out from being pushed back by the Nassau scrum, and the backfield minus Eaton and Mauran could hardly keep up with the Princeton team...