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...Green also has the edge along the line in experience and speed. The thin Red Line of Harvard has played alert and some times ferocious ball according. Tribe scout Elmer Lampe. But usually tires in the second half it should crumble before the power of men like Paul Staley and Tom Eberle...

Author: By Woody Klein, | Title: Big Green Big Favorite To Down Cantabs Here | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

Four scalps have fallen to Dartmouth's unbeaten soccer team; the Crimson is smarting after its less to Army thin should add up to a good scrap when the teams meet today at Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Meet Undefeated Indians Today at Hanover | 10/27/1950 | See Source »

...City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served in World War II, sweeping up enemy mines off Palau, Okinawa, the Philippines and Normandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death for the Magpie | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...afraid of being taken in and afraid of being left out; the lazy sponger with an uncanny eye for the latest thing in letters who privately believes that modern writing is "so rotten that it may be good, in a rotten way"; the scraggly poet with "a thin virgin beard" who preaches that "the true decadent has no modesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Substance of Life | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Southern Exposure is one of those little jobs that lay everything on too thick and yet seem pathetically thin. The spoofing is as primitive as the objects of it are genteel; the romance, though it would seem recklessly swift in real life, seems endless on the stage. But the root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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