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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teach less from textbooks, more from "personal experience." 26. The winner of the Wendell Willkie One World Award began a powerful series of broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...ttingen last week, cheerful, bushy-browed Dr. Werner Heisenberg, a top German physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize, said that Russia had made a standing offer of $6,000 a year to any German atomic scientist who would work for the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Sensible Advance | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Landon '42, who died when his torpedo plane exploded after a direct hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft shell, is Charles R. Conklin '48, of Delta, Colorado, and the Brunswick Hotel, the University announced yesterday. Charles M. Gray '49, of Urbana, Illinois, and Kirkland House, was named as winner of the annual Jacob Wendall scholarship at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. R. Conklin '48 Is First Recipient Of Landon Grant | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

...first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Flanagan, particularly, has lavished attention on the Varsity weightthrowers, with the result that they have been winning so often that their point-getting ability is now taken for granted. Fisher, Felton, and Zeigler all throw better than 50 feet. Winner of last year's IC4A 35-pound weight-throw, Jack is carrying on a four-brother, Andover-Harvard family tradition...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

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