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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be, however, that considerable time will elapse before Bittelman is deported to Russia or Claudia Jones to her native Trinidad. There will, of course, be the usual lengthy appeals to the courts. But even after they are exhausted, there is one other big hurdle in the way. Their native countries may simply refuse to take them back...
...Skating mamas" are a strange breed, like the mothers of violin prodigies and child movie stars. They watch over their daughters like circling hawks, and fuss around them like anxious hens. This week, as usual, they will sit around hotel lobbies in St. Moritz, discussing other skating mothers who are out of earshot-and their daughters. Mrs. Scott is understandably possessive and protective of her daughter, but does her best to avoid the infighting among "skating mamas." She wants Barbara Ann to stay as she is: winning titles by trying harder and being more precise than her rivals...
...utterly absorbed in it I still felt that it took time which might have gone into more academic work. Nevertheless, the CRIMSON experience was educational in every sense of the word, including the vocational. My work on the CRIMSON led me directly into newspaper work and after the usual five year interruption I became a publisher of a medium size newspaper which I started along with some other people. Probably I would not have had the conceit to take this step if I had not had the CRIMSON under my belt. My work on the CRIMSON was certainly the most...
Russia's Joseph Stalin had his usual amazing political luck: he ran for city deputy of 1) Tiflis, 2) Frunze, 3) Alma Ata, got every last vote cast...
...take pictures of random stars; and the astronomers, though they kept their mouths shut, seemed more starry-eyed than usual after the big telescope's initial performance. The man to whom the moment meant most may have been Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, whose specialty is space. Years ago, using the 100-in. telescope on Mt. Wilson, he had explored the known frontiers of the universe. He found a baffling mystery: the distant nebulae (clouds containing billions of stars) seemed to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, as if the whole universe were convulsed by one vast...