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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polish papers had not very much to say, except to welcome Poland's new military boss obsequiously. The Red propaganda mill promptly ground out some fetching facts to fit Poland's new made-in-Russia national hero. "We receive the news of his appointment with great emotion, that a child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first...

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

There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...soccer team downed Yale, 2 to 0, by playing short, accurate ball all the way. Scoring once in the second period and again at the beginning of the fourth, Coach Bruce Monro's team made a heavy, "boot-and-run" Eli outfit play Harvard's game all the way except for a few shaky minutes at the beginning...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Crimson Booters Shut Out Eli, 2-0 | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...story itself, based on questions asked by a CRIMSON reporter, was accurate enough, except for the statement about Saturday classes meeting at the pleasure of the instructor. By Faculty regulations instructors are expected to hold classes as usual on Saturday morning. W. J. Bender

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Doesn't Threaten | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...traveling squad is complete except for Peto Coyne, who is remaining home because of serious illness in his family. Another unusual factor is that Captain Hugh Edmonds and first-string end Peirce Leavitt, of the jayvees, will not be able to play in their game today, since both are important men in tomorrow's varsity lineups. Edmonds is now second-string varsity quarterback, while Leavitt will probably get the starting assignment at defensive right...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Spirited Eleven Holds Last Workout Before Yale Game, Departs Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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