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Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Gets Back Itinerant Briefcase | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...three years since Mexico City, Latin American labor movements have pretty well repudiated Communist leaders. Of the 280 delegates and advisers at the meeting (from all countries except Peru, Venezuela, Honduras and Paraguay), Communists numbered so few that they even had trouble making much noise. Lombardo Toledano was absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Under New Management | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Clutch hitting, something which has been conspicuously absent in the Harvard baseball team since the Navy game, brought Stuffy McInnis' crew a 7 to 6 victory over Columbia here Saturday and moved that plucky band into a second place tie with Penn in the EIBL...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Foynes' Pinch-Hit Single Brings Nine 7-6 Win Over Lions | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

During the middle of the freshman crew race exactly seven days ago, the MIT shell meandered absent-mindedly to the left and then to the right. MIT oarsmen have insisted ever since that "they wuz robbed" and had their boat only travelled in a straight line they would have kept the lead they managed to hold for more than a mile...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: MIT Freshman Crew Out To Turn the Tables Today | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...addition to the Faculty Big Names associated with the History and Lit department, such as F. O. Matthiessen, who will be absent next year but will return in the fall of 1950, there is a group of tuors who are specialists in each of the fields, and every concentrator gets regular tutorial guidance from the time he enters, unless his grades fall below the minimum Group IV rating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Literature . . . | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

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