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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Call Northside 777. Joe was grateful, but a little bewildered. His wife had divorced him (with his consent) and remarried while he was in prison, and he often went to see her and his 14-year-old son. He worked in various jobs as a sales correspondent, collector and bookkeeper. A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a picture, Call Northside 777 (see CINEMA...
...decade the Nelsons played second fiddle to various radio stars (Robert Ripley, Joe Penner, Feg Murray). Briefly, Harriet was a successful cinemactress (Follow the Fleet, New Faces). They joined Red Skelton in 1941, and when Red went into the Army, they finally got a program of their...
...waterfall of motions, secondings, right-hand raisings, and other commonplace manifestations of parliamentary procedure that took place at last night's meeting in Adams House, one unanimous vote carried uncommon significance. The meeting, which created the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, had been dealing with the various aspects of the Marshall Plan that it felt ought to be "saved." The vote was in favor of accepting a broadly outlined four-point program, and its unanimity was significant in that it included the assent of leaders from such widely divergent groups as the Students for Democratic Action...
...This article marks the inauguration of a new Crimson editorial feature. It is intended, in the first place, to provide more complete coverage of various extra-curricular organizations and events than has been accomplished in the past. In the second place, the feature will attempt to present the sort of informal, personal view of the various activities that is impossible under the restrictions customary to unsigned news stories. Consequently, 'The Walrus Said' will express the views and impressions of the authors, and will not necessarily represent the opinion of the Crimson...
Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of CalTech (who doubles in rocket propulsion) hopes to go gunning with the 200-inch for neutron stars and gravitational lenses. Various theories of stellar evolution tell how stars may be born and decline to stellar senility. Zwicky thinks that the last stage may be a star made up chiefly of neutrons. Since neutrons are very much denser than atoms, such stars might be only ten miles in diameter. Every cubic centimeter of their volume would weigh, Zwicky figures, about one million tons...