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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of Craig Coombs and Tom Zinsser if, and it seems probable, the score is high enough in favor of the Crimson. Barnaby has three other doubles teams, but he's looking ahead to the Yale match which requires five doubles matches instead of the usual three...
...Library of Congress, as usual, has many openings in its vast staff, which includes everything from experts in paleontology to researches in Orientalia, as well as those with the more standard librarian duties...
Small (5 ft.), swarthy Harry Winston, one of the leading U.S. diamond dealers, thus took possession of his biggest buy this year - the famed gem collection of Washington's onetime No. 1 hostess, the late Evalyn Walsh McLean. As usual, he had shipped it to himself by mail (postage: $159.87, including the cost of registering and insuring...
Airlines. Edward V. Rickenbacker's tightly run ("We squeeze the pennies and then we squeeze the mills") Eastern Air Lines made a profit last year, as usual. On an alltime record gross of $66.5 million, Eastern turned in a net of $2,350,000 (98? a common share), almost double the 1947 figure...
...marshes north of Rome, but "Paisan's" decision involved active people, not figures on a chart. And the difference shows up in the relative emotional punch of the two pictures. "Command Decision" is no waste of time; it is often funny and occasionally penetrating. It is well above the usual wild-blue-yonder movie. But it has been sufficiently made-up and costumed until its insight has been submerged under a lot of carefully cleaned-and-pressed brass...