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Mark Stevens is cast as a tight-lipped American sea captain sent to France to pick up gold bullion which is to finance the war of 1812. Stevens' crew, however, who fondly call him "Goody Goody," put him in irons after a few running engagements that put Pearl Harbor to...

Author: By Erik Amfithlatrof, | Title: Mutiny | 3/19/1952 | See Source »

A strange and mystifying ceremony, will take place in Moors Hall this week as hundreds of grim-lipped girls draw lots for their next year's rooms. A highly-coveted low number will give the holder a good chance for one of the choice rooms in her rent group.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anxious Boarders Find Fate Hanging on Game of Chance | 3/18/1952 | See Source »

Halfway around the world, phones jangled in the Pentagon. The White House was notified. Top Washington officials waited tight-lipped for the next message from the Higbee.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Phantom from the Deep | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Purse-lipped, stiff-necked Dr. (of economics) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht,* the seeming epitome of bankerly rectitude, has always known how to land right side up. Under Kaiser Wilhelm II he was an ardent nationalist; when the Weimar Republic was popular, he was an ardent Democrat and president of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Many Lives | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Each year coaches and athletic fans look with a hopeful eye at the freshman teams, on the old theory that good freshman athletes make good on the next year's varsity. The old theory doesn't always hold water, but Harvard's hockey coaches are nonetheless jubilant over the material...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

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