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Last week the Times, with a candor born of maturity, opened the door on its trophy case-and a closet of skeletons. In the third volume of its autobiography (The History of the Times, 1884-1912, Macmillan; $6.50), it told how it once blundered to the brink of bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rumble of Thunder | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...rare occasions when Emmet suspected that he was being double-crossed, he was not very worried. He wrote: "If a precipice is opening under my feet from which duty will not suffer me to run back, I am thankful for that sanguine disposition which leads me to the brink and throws me down, while my eyes are still raised to the visions of happiness that my fancy formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlucky Rebel | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Sanders is concerned the Theater Workshop has simply given up. It is going elsewhere; not that there's anywhere much else to go, but the Sanders situations has just proven too heavy a load to bear. HDC is wavering on the brink. Sanders is out of the question for its spring play, and the Club has managed to squeeze into the Brattle Sreet Theater. Beyond that, HDC doesn't know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

William C. Becker, Robert H. Brink, Jr., David C. Brisk, Jr., David A. Brockway, Rodman F. Duane, Charles M. Fosgate, Jr., George A. Furness, Jr., DeWitt S. Goodman, Raymond Grew, Thomas W. Grossman, Richard B. Hanson, Sherrill H. Houston, Ralph W. Judd, Edward R. Kane, Robert H. Knox, Frederick B. Oppelgate, Frederick A. Parker, Jr., Thomas L. Regan, Jr., Stephen O. Saxe, Louis Solomon, Alan Sweetser, Samuel C. Timmons, Robert W. Tolf, Richard A. Van Deuren, Peter Van Slingerland, Jefferson Watkins, Roland F. While, and Judson M. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fun, Frolic Mark Finish of Yardling Smoker Campaign | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...candidates, all of whom are members of the Class of 1951, are: William C. Becker, Robert H. Brink, Jr., David C. Brisk, Jr., David A. Brockway, Charles M. Fosgate, Jr., George A. Furness, Jr., DeWitt S. Goodman, Raymond Grew, Thomas W. Grossman, Richard B. Hansen, Sherrill H. Houston, Ralph W. Judd, Edward R. Kane, Frederick A. Parker, Jr., Thomas L. Regan, Jr., Stephen O. Saxe, Louis Solomon, Alan Sweetser, Samuel C. Timmons, Robert W. Tolf, Richard A. Van Deuren, Peter Van Slingerland, Jefferson Watkins, Roland F. Wille, and Judson M. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Campaigns Begin to Pick Freshman Committee | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

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