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...team that was so hot last week that it knocked ever Yale and Princeton to win the Big Three Championship, will line up against Army, the East's perennial top team, along with the rest of the Ivy League and Navy at 2:30 p.m. Five miles--the longest distance the squad has run this year--will show how the Crimson ranks in the big time of cross country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Take On East's Top Competition Today | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

Sironia, Texas is apparently the longest novel by an American writer ever to be published. Its 840,000 words cover 1,731 pages of medium-fine print. It costs $10 in the regular two-volume edition, and it can also be had in a de luxe $15 printing. Author Cooper, a 59-year-old bachelor, took eleven years to write it, during and after business hours at the desk where he manages a family real-estate fortune (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Texas Gushers | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Crimson, with a five-and-one record, is now assured of its first winning season since 1946. Its four-game winning string is also the longest since...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Crimson Recovers to Topple Surprising Davidson, 35-26 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...although neither Clasby nor Culver worked out on Monday, and Culver was still a little bruised from the Dartmouth game, both will be ready to go against Davidson Saturday. Wingback John Ederer went through the longest workout of the regular backs, devoting most of the afternoon to his left handed passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clasby Vacations From Scrimmage | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

From the U.S. official closest to the Iranian oil crisis for the longest time, Henry Grady, U.S. ambassador to Teheran for 14 months, came an undiplomatically candid comment on the diplomatic break. "Had Britain and the U.S. backed [General Ali] Razmara, the former Iranian Prime Minister who was a friend of the West and who was fighting the nationalization movement, this present situation would not have developed," Grady said in San Francisco. "Nor would Razmara have been assassinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Diplomacy by Blackmail | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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