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...successfully passed last September when a small army of veterans and their dependents moved en mass upon Cambridge. Moving with singular rapidity, the University promptly filled in the imminent breach by reconverting a deserted army camp and a hotel in downtown Boston, and adding them to its string of temporary projects on the old tennis courts and across the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Accomplished | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

...Brickley reported after the examination yesterday that the 22-year old Gardiner had ice skates fastened to his feet. Lieutenant Edward L. Connally of the Lower Basin Division M.D.P., surmised that the third string football center and Varsity stroke oar had gone through an ice hole hidden from the moonlight in the shadow of a bridge farther up the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Body of Gardiner Surfaces In Basin Sector of Charles | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

...this most important of conferences, and lay down some framework for the treaty-drafting procedure, a meeting of lesser officials of the four powers began negotiations in January. Unfortunately, five weeks or so of wrangling have produced little visible results, and Messrs. Bevin, Bidault, Marshall, and Molotov, the first string team, will be forced to start things again from the very beginning. And it would seem that these four gentlemen will find four distinct levels on which controversy will be abundant, and compromise the order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Captain Terry Van Ingen, who handles the net-minding duties, is now completing his third season as the Blue first-string goalie. From the defensive angle, he will be bulwarked by the starting combination of Walt Allen and Jack Calhoun, who are both former letter winners along will all but three of the fourteen regular game performers...

Author: By Oliver Brooks, | Title: Sextet Faces Elis Tonight at Arena; Barclaymen Meet Undefeated Lions | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...much-publicized radio legend (which Uncle Don insists is a canard): once, having finished off a program with a particularly sugary string of cliches and commercials, he loosened his tie, curled his lip and snarled: "There, I guess that'll hold the little bastards." Then he learned that he was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goodbye, Little Friends | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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