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...plump, balding, kindly looking little man. He seemed dumfounded one day last October to find reporters outside his $35-a-month apartment in Queens. Was he Gerhart Eisler? Yes, yes, he was. Well-he had just been accused of being the No. I U.S. Communist, the Brain, the big tap on the wire to Moscow. How about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Man from Moscow | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

President Conant suggests the development of two-year colleges supported by federal funds. Educators elsewhere might inquire just how the President means to tap the nation's dwindling sources of teaching talent? Just where does Mr. Conant mean to draw off the funds for this move while an economy-minded Congress slashes at the vitals of the national budget? And lastly, are succeeding generations of students with limited means doomed to that kind of capsule education that leaves little room for development of individual talents and even less room for the general, ethical background so essential in a free society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Way to Learning | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

...game they won weeks ago on paper, coach Bill Barclay's rejuvenated hoopmen will return to the Indoor Athletic Building tonight against Northeastern after nearly a month's absence. Tap-off time is 8:45 o'clock...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Crimson Favored Over Husky Five In Game Tonight | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

Exploiting his height under the basket, Hauptfuhrer has registered most of his markers on tap-ins and pivot hook shots, and on give-and-go combinations with Mariaschin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hauptfuhrer Nation's Tenth Highest Scorer With 190, Reports AP | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

...forgetting it. Brushing aside any facts that might stand in their way the wily movie magnates have made of Dolly Madison something more than "mine gracious hostess" and daring rescuer of the portrait of George Washington. For, ensconced within the charming structure of Ginger Rogers, she is capable of tap-dancing, being psychoanalized and bewitching young men of good family. She does none of these, however, but there is an omnipresent suspicion that she might, at any moment, go into her routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/15/1947 | See Source »

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