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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crabbe is unwilling to depend entirely on water events for financial success, and has therefore larded the production with a number of excellent vaudeville acts, including a juggler, four acrobats, a muscle act, and impersonator, and the traditional animal performers. It was a wise decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...Ireneo Fernando Cruz, realistic rector of the budding University of Cuyo, had organized the Congress of Philosophy. Object: to boost the prestige of Argentina and its government, on which all Argentine universities depend for handouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Well-Proportioned Man | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...last visit, 24-year-old Communist Addington, now a senior, went a little too far. A representative asked him whether he would fight for the U.S. if it went to war with Russia. Addington was evasive, finally mumbled something to the effect that it would depend on who was the aggressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lone Star v. Red | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Mucli of the Pact's success will depend on intelligent policy decisions in the future and recognition of problems that may arise. One such problem is what constitutes an act of aggression. Secretary of State Acheson has said that a purely internal revolution is not aggression, but if that revolution is obviously promoted by a foreign power, it is aggression. This is a difficult borderline doctrine. Another problem is to strike the essential balance in channelling European economy between recovery and rearment. A major purpose of the Pact is to relieve small nations of overburdening war expenditure. It would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pact for Peace | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present) is clever, if weighty; whether the one attribute offsets the other will depend on the reader...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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