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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashionable Preston Hollow, which he shares with his onetime actress wife "Newby" and daughter Susan, 2, and possibly get in a bit of tennis and flying. "It is highly desirable," he says, "that a conductor be recognized as one of the people. I don't plan to lead an ivory-tower existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One of the People | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...bleeding and battered, supported in his saddle by white-faced fellow soldiers. Although pelted with mud, the bandsmen continued to blow bravely on their instruments. General William Booth stood up in the carriage, beard flying and beak nose pointing to heaven, to direct his soldiers of the gospel and lead them, bedraggled and bloody, into Sheffield's Albert Hall for a revival meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...army had to change with the times, as the Devil himself changed, or lose the fight. In a modern world, the kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

They cited the case of Van Pelt v. US (Virginia, 1917) which said, "The Statute is violated, if the intent is to expose the woman to such influences as will naturally and inevitably so corrupt her mind and character as to lead to acts of sexual immorality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers Splash Cold Water On Crimson's Bathtub Plan | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's three-man indoor team of Captain Walter Beveraggl at number two position, Tom Calhoun at number one, and his brother Sandy at back, got a slow start in the unfamiliar building. Cornell, which had just returned from defeating Princeton, 16 to 4, had a 3 to 0 lead at the end of the first chukker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Polo Squad Defeats Cornell Team in 15-14 Upset | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

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