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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fifty percent of the Yale students polled were opposed to athletic scholarships in any form while 38 percent would sanction them "if other Ivy League schools gave them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows Virgins Abound at Yale | 1/31/1950 | See Source »

...short, tentative step toward the control of one kind of cancer was announced this week by Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. The variety of cancer: sarcoma, a deadly form which involves the body's connective tissues. The medication: Polysaccharides (multiple sugars) produced by bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Promising Prospect | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...than even modern football does. That is the reason why basketball coaches here & there have experimented with platoon substitutions for years. This season a few schools have been polishing the platoon system into a fine art. Exhibit A is Holy Cross, undefeated in 14 games and, on mid-season form, the top team in the college game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Platoons of Crusaders | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...without his toupee seems to have launched an entirely new career. Broadway's Gary Merrill, playing the general's nerve-racked predecessor, adds considerably to the picture's conviction. Hugh Marlowe, Robert Patten, John Kellogg, Millard Mitchell and Paul Stewart are all able actors in top form. If Hollywood had no star system, the difficult central role would call for an actor of more physical maturity than Gregory Peck. Nonetheless, Star Peck rises above the handicap with a strong, beautifully modulated performance that never lets the role down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...seventh story is worth the rest of the book together. Little Foxes recounts how a few enlightened Englishmen nobly shouldered the white man's burden in an Ethiopian province, and introduced civilization in its highest form-the fox hunt. With an efficiency extraordinary in the colonies, they soon had organized the whole province around the hunt, so that it became an indispensable function of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drops from a Rusty Spigot | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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