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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trygve Lie and fellow U.N. delegates went out to the ball game, dined ball-gamely. Lie tucked in hot dogS, Australia's Lieut. Colonel William Roy Hodgson nuzzled peanuts, The Netherlands' Dr. Eelco N. van Kleffens crunched a candy' bar. Observed a member of the secretariat: "It's a crazy country...
...Jackson, whose real name, according to the Mexican police, is Jacques van den Dreschd (he is a Belgian traveling on false Canadian papers), is still in a Mexico City jail. A month ago, Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist...
...Olaf Van Acht '49--Ruth M. Jordan...
Formed after the Concord Conference of February 8 to 12, the Council, headed by Ruth Forguson, Wellesley '48, hopes to coordinate the numerous Boston college groups interested in the eventual establishment of a federal world government. Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize winner will be its first forum speaker on "The First Step in World Government." The meeting, free to the Harvard and Radcliffe public, will begin at 8 o'clock...
...field of 17 competitors, Tech was trailing Eli till the last two races in the afternoon when the Engineer's coach Doc Lukens turned the trick by substituting a fresh helm man. The Crimson A and B teams turned in a rather weak 4th and 8th respectively. Paul M. van Buren '46 and Alex Ogilby '47 comprised the first crew, while Hilary H. Smart '47 and Owen G. Torrey '47 competed in the B division races...