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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month room. Nights, she studied for a master's degree at American University, wrote a critical paper on "Economic Planning in the Soviet Union." Most weekends, Judith went home to Brooklyn to visit her ailing parents. Her mother had heart trouble; her father, Samuel Coplon, a retired toy merchant, was paralyzed. Samuel Coplon used to be known as the "Santa Claus of the Adirondacks": he gave away thousands of toys to country kids at Christmas. One night last week, the Coplons waited in vain for Judith. For when Judith arrived at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Baby Face | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Mixed Feelings. Of many new houses near the park, the closest belongs to straggle-bearded Akira Yamamoto, 37, a sewing-machine merchant whose back stoop is only 80 feet from the shaft. During the war Yamamoto worked in a munitions plant ten miles away, while his wife and older children were in the country, but his parents lived in the target area and were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report from Nagasaki | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Rifle--Varsity vs. San Francisco, Ohio, Merchant Marine at West Point. Freshmen vs. Merchant Marine freshmen at West Point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 9 Crimson Squads Tackle Foes Today | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Idler Workshop will present scenes of Shakespeare's women at 4 p.m. today in Agassiz Theater. Selections chosen for the production are from "All's Well That Ends Well," "Othello," Romeo and Juliet," and "The Merchant of Venice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Gives Excerpts | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

Local optometrists were reported forming a "light market" to hawk the shady publications, and one merchant stated that "after all, the magazines were probably too sexy for Harvard pupils." Paul W. Mandel '51, noted naval analyst, was quoted as saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Newsmen, Cops, Fail To See Eye to Eye on Sex | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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