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THE reduction of history to hokum, which, at times, seems the purposeful aim off some of our movie-makers in their striving to "entertain," is something to which this reviewer is bitterly but hopelessly resigned. So long as we have motion pictures, we're going to have much false history, we suppose.
City College's baseball team put two big innings together yesterday to gain its first Metropolitan Collegiate Conference victory in two starts by turning back St. John's College, 7 to 5, at Dexter Park, Woodhaven.
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Subsidies for Farmers The Truman Administration last week put before the Eighty-first Congress a new farm program -- a program of vast economic and political implications. It took a new approach to the role of the farmer in the national economy. It took a new approach to the relationship among farmers, consumers and the Government -- an approach that seemed to be influenced by the "welfare state" principles of President Truman's "fair deal."
Apts planned on site of former NYC mansion
1949Daniel Mangeas, French banker and sportscaster[†]
Daniel Mangeas, is a former baker who was the commentator of the Tour de France and other important cycle races in France and Belgium between 1974 and 2014. During his career he commentated on 200 events a year, and tried to never speak for the rest of the day after races, to preserve his voice.