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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cohn and Freshman Mal Moley won their singles matches for the Varsity, but Vincent Brandt, another '46 star, lost a closely-contested match to Stacy Hill, former Dartmouth captain. Houston Warren and Humphrey Bannister, both '46, lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Bows to Business School, 5-3 | 8/5/1942 | See Source »

...VINCENT H. WHITNEY University of Maine Orono...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Some people found it bad enough to be frightening. In New York City a committee called Citizens For Victory (most prominent officers: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Fiscal Expert Harry Scherman, Editor Walter Millis) wrote an advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY? The ad went over the same barren, dreary ground as the daily headlines: Our own young boys are dying bravely for us; so are Russians, British, Chinese; but in Washington the spectacle of pork-barrel politics is as unblushing as ever. The ad denounced the farm bloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Action, Action, Action! | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dear Adolf | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Houston Warren, a Freshman whom Coach Jack Barnaby thinks has good possibilities, scored an impressive victory when he beat Joe Caldwell, number five man on last year's Freshman squad, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. And Vincent Brandt, whom Barnaby considers the outstanding member of the '46 contingent, defeated Steve Welsh...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: SORLEIN DROPS GAME TO FRESHMAN IN TENNIS | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

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