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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guests at a 64th birthday party for Secretary Charlie Ross (the prize gift: an imperial gallon of Scotch from White House reporters) that the election had been a wonderful satisfaction and that he had received even more messages of congratulation than he had after his own triumph a year ago...
...England Council Steel Committee is directing the early planning for the mill. Formed three years ago, this group has the job of selecting the site and arranging for the financing of the new enterprise. Finding a location is the Committee's biggest problem-not because it can't find a suitable city but because so many cities are seeking such an industtry to ward off unemployment. Boston would like to see the mill in adjoining Hingham or Everett; the only steel plant now in New England is a small one on the Mystic River flats in Everett. Hingham, however...
...Jackson bruises leg," "Nadherny wrenches knee". . . this year, as ever, the stories come off the practice fields reeking of iodine and arnica. Two years ago they practically amputed Ferd's foot before he managed to escape from the pressrooms in time to smash Harvard into minute particles...
There years ago the halftime and final scores were cabled to the Harvard Club of London, but no such plans have been announced this year. Last year, Harvard and Yale men in the West followed news ticker accounts of the game at special joint meetings, but the plan has been abandoned this year...
This increased freedom to study in "unrelated fields" came into effect two years ago after ten years of study initiated when Seymour took office. In addition, the Yale undergraduate can take an almost unlimited number of courses in the graduate schools and may even major in a field in which a graduate school offers the only courses available...