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Meet, Yale, and pool records went under beneath the flailing arms of Eli's Allen Stack in 150-yard backstroke with 1:33.4. The former Yale record was notched by Alan Ford, free-style ace, at New Haven in 1944, taking the water on his back for variety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Weekend Sees Three Varsities | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Stack Notohes Another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Weekend Sees Three Varsities | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...returned to its audit office from suppliers and wholesalers were carefully checked, then stuck on gummed sheets to be destroyed. First, WPTB tried burning the sheets in a furnace. They clinkered and left unburned coupons inside. Next a blast furnace was used. Unburned coupons sometimes blasted right up the stack and out again; unscrupulous finders might pick them up and use them. At last WPTB hit on a system that looked foolproof. They sacked the coupons, sent them along in armored trucks to the E. B. Eddy paper plant in Hull. While WPTB inspectors watched, the coupons were dumped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Gleaners | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Contemplated careers of pre-war Grant Study participants and present Freshman stack up closely with present occupations of the now graduated "guinea pigs," statistics released yesterday by the Study show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Hold to Vocation Choices, Statistics Declare | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

Calico & Cream Pots. As letters, they make fascinating reading; as a record of Southern life, 1861-65, they are worth a stack of yarns like Gone With the Wind. The title tells only part of the story, for some of the best letters are Susan Black-ford's. Prices were high, she explained: calico, $2.50 a yard; leather boots, $50 a pair. Little Willie, their son, was naughty but "so funny": he sang "Dixie" when he went to bed at night instead of going off to sleep as he should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Virginia | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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