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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, China's commercial airlines - built and operated with the help of American personnel- had flown passengers and cargo through every kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
Yale did not run against Princeton. It did not run because it could not. However, Messrs. Hickman and Jack Lavalle have seen Harvard's defensive setups. The latter, an operative whose girth is comparable to Hickman's and whose football sagacity is legendary, scouted Army nine times a year for three years while in the employ of the Notre Dame Athletic Association. If he found flaws in the 1944, 1945, and 1946 Army lines he must have noticed by now the carefree fashion in which Princeton and Brown went through the center of Harvard's line. This means that Yale...
...seventh of the students is Polish born Benon Przybielski '51, whose father was killed in 1939 and the rest of his family, except one brother, sent to a concentration camp. The brother joined the underground in Warsaw, but Benon was sent to do farm work in Germany...
...Lionel team, which has had only one touchdown scored against them in nine games, stiffed the Straus pass attack with frequent interceptions. Bob Campbell ran back one of these to a touchdown, after a quick kick by Ted Berkeley had driven Straus to its own goalline. Steve Kurzman, whose passing has highlighted the Lionel offense all season, tossed scoring passes to Hank Green-burg and Dick Chamberlain...
...Conant, still holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when...