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...have a hell of a cold," Eugene G. Kraetzer, Jr. '29, recording secretary of the University, said yesterday, yet he saw no immediate relief in sight. Red tape has held up the $500,000 bequest of the late Paul V. Bacon '98 that was to establish a professorship for research on the common cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sneezing Will Continue as Red Tape Snarls Unravelling of Cold Bequest | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

...still a "shop man" with a limitless interest in prowling through plants and greeting machinists by their first names. The boy from Hell's Kitchen had never found much time for social life; he and his wife seldom went out, seldom entertained. His work was still his life, and he drove other men to work simply by example-by his own almost fearful enthusiasm, energy and capacity for toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: The Man at the Wheel | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...group of films burrows into the mud and slime of war. This is the "war is hell" theme, and it centers around the enlisted man. You don't necessarily see the enemy, but the enemy sees you, and he overhears you in your foxhole, when you talk about home, and what you're going to do after the war, and when will the whole mess be over . . . and then, "BANG," and your buddy is dead. Up until the final scene, the fatality rate in this movie is three buddies to one enemy, but the last scene is really brutal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

...small beginning, but not an easy one. "I'll lose clients because of what I did tonight," admitted a young lawyer, "but what the hell-it's worth it." Said Merson: "It will take more than a Tide of Toys to bring the American Legion back to life. But it can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Revolt in the Legion | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...I.Q.s look better by comparison. Soon they were showing the objectivity of professionals. When Punch, the gangster, gave a test to Al Capone,† he told the sulking big shot: "You didn't do so good last time, Al, so we gotta run it again. I swear to hell I don't see how you get nowhere with a I.Q. like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Stuff | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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