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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With victories over Tufts and Boston University behind him Floyd Wilson sends his freshman basketball team onto the Boston Garden court at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon to meet Boston College for a game which may provide the first real test for the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Yard Cagers Battle BC At Garden Today | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...campaign last summer. In his search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July 7, it hit the bestseller lists in two weeks, headed them in two months and has stayed firmly on top ever since. Last week, with over 260,000 copies sold, it was moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beast In Us | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...first it seemed simply to be a few isolated cases of thoughtlessness by real University maintenance men. But a brief investigation has turned up such a staggering weight of evidence that we can no longer strain coincidence for an explanation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...varsity was not no ever powering as the score indicates. It was a fairly dull match because the visitors offered real competition in only two classes (186 and 155) and because several of Batch Jordan's men, particularly Bob Claflin, looked uncertain at their new weights...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Win by 24-7 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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