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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Travelers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly led by Halfback Kyle Rote, that fought as if it were defending the Alamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...grace of one touchdown, Notre Dame had won the national championship and finished its fourth undefeated season in a row. But the Irish had been in a football game and they knew it. Said Coach Frank Leahy: "The best team we've met all season . . . Kyle Rote is the most underrated back in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week stone-throwing Bill Bingham found out what it was like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Change of Heart | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Variety says that show business is bad this season. This unfortunate condition will not be improved by the arrival of the musical revue, "Alive and Kicking...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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