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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicholas Benton '51 plays the ex-burlesque queen with the heart of gold, and Wayne A. Clark '52 plays her son, Alabams, who wants to be a playwright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC's 'Antigone,' Pudding Show Open Tonight | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Sophisticated summer stock actors war with sober New England villagers in the Hasty Pudding's 102nd annual production, "Heart of Gold," which opens at 8:30 p.m. tonight at 12 Holyoke Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC's 'Antigone,' Pudding Show Open Tonight | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Proud Past. By the time he had bought the Stevens, Hilton was convinced that he also wanted the dignified old Palmer House, which was as dear to the hearts of Chicago's Gold Coast as the Plaza was to New Yorkers. To get it lock, stock and history, Hilton teamed up with Builder Henry Crown (TIME, Nov. 28) and signed the biggest check of his career-$7,500,000-as a down payment. For a total of $19,385,000 he picked up a hotel that had cost $25,800,000 to build on land worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birds & Bigotry | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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