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February 28, 1948

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THE TRAGIC SENSE - I

PROFILE of Eugene O'Neill. His father, James O'Neill, starred in such dramas as "A Celebrated Case," "Two Orphans and "David Garrick." In 1872, …

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Giant Slalom.

Robert M. Coates

Reporter at Large about a slalom race down Mount Cranmore, N.H. (Slalom comes from an old Norwegian dialect word meaning slow, or careful.) Tells about the…

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