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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Gravitt, a slight, nervous taxicab driver with a record of 22 previous traffic offenses, also testified: "This accident which happened was unavoidable. I see her everytime I go to bed and I said then and I still say I would rather it to have been me than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...career diplomat, Florman is president of the Cleevelandt Corp., manufacturers of scientific and mechanical devices. Born in Poland, naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1917, he has traveled widely but has never been to South America. His only previous contact with diplomacy has been rather remote: he designed an ornate lighter which President Roosevelt gave to Premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendly Showman | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...fullback, a junior, has suffered two previous concussions in his football career and had been warned after a concussion in his freshman year that if anything further happened he would probably have to give up football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bottenfield, Well, Returns to Room | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to Warsaw: i) the Soviet army was going to be dramatically withdrawn from Germany, but it would now be able to dig in permanently in Poland, a short 50 miles from Berlin; 2) the previous heads of the Polish army were not reliable; 3) the way to prevent future Titos was to incorporate the satellites, lock, stock & barrel, into the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Child of the People | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...great climax game came in 1931, when Albie Booth, who had been beaten by Harvard in the two previous years, finally gained revenge when he dropkicked a 22-yard field goal with only three minutes left to play to win for Yale, 3 to 0. It was Harvard's only setback of the season and the Crimson last a golden opportunity to win the eastern championship for the first time since...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Stars, Changes, Tradition Feature H-Y Series | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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