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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above all it is one of the few horror stories in the language that really reaches the bottom of the well of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...aging visionary; Bud, a sex-happy racketeer; Paul, a boy trying to do the man's work of revolution, and his sister Anna, the eternal fraulein. The conquerors include a commanding general whose rifle-cracking speech sounds borrowed from George Patton; the general's rare-do-well nephew, who keeps his wife in a nervous sweat and Anna in a little apartment, and a Congressman who bellows in public to inspect the security files, and pants in private to visit a brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Myth | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Georgian structure will house 105 students in small, convenient rooms, alleviating the Annex housing situation to the extent that local undergraduates will no longer be forced to commute. If it efficiently fulfills the functions it was designed for, still-unfinished Moors will provide its residents with well planned, up to date living, eating, and social activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflagration in Moors Hall Fails to Halt Debut | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Organized in 1945, Circle Sound, Inc. has poked and pulled more than 20 albums and many singles into circulation, as well as compiling a monumental 45-record Jelly Roll Morton cycle which is available in some libraries or at a fine price to the more opulent admirers of Mr. Morton. Among the best albums presented are by two bands which appeared on the "This Is Jazz" program in 1947-one led by Kid Ory, the other by Wild Bill Davison...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey jr., | Title: JAZZ | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Steam shovels moved into Jarvis Field this summer to start excavations for the University's new $3,000,000 Graduate Center. Wrecking crows are already well along with the job of tearing down the Portland huts, temporary units which housed six veterans and their families...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Grad Center with Functional Planning Will Replace Vets' Housing at Jarvis Court | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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