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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen more men advanced to the second round of the University singles tennis championships during the past week as summer athletics director Norman W. Fradd announced that Saturday would be the deadline for reporting second round matches...
During the past ten days alone, more than 200 applications for fall housing have been filed by married students, Donald K. Hathaway of Hunneman and Company disclosed. Mrs. W. A. Lowry of the Room Registry office in Phillips Brooks House added that as many as 60 persons a day have been inquiring about furnished rooms...
Other prominent individuals reported present were former Secretary of War Robert B. Patterson, Surgeon General R. W. Bliss of the U.S. Army, and Dr. Winthrop Adams, medical director of the Veterans Administration...
...feet. It was broken again in 1935 by Orvil Anderson and Albert W. Stevens, U.S. Army Air Corps, who went to 72,395 feet in a sealed, spherical gondola like Piccard...
...manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as a thoroughly crooked and brutal business. This point of view is entirely tenable, but as the theme of a full-length novel it gets tiresome. All the shocking details that Schulberg desperately dishes up cannot disguise the sophomoric quality of his storytelling, and readers will end up feeling that his book...