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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything bothers her about her career, it is the fact that directors so often cast her as a lady of uneasy virtue. In her first straight dramatic part-in the forthcoming movie Austerlitz, with Orson

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Radnor High | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Endicott 8-8511 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...triumph was Harvard's four the straight in the series, and the Crimson had outscored the Elis, 112 to 5 in those four years. Harvard and coach Percy Haughton reached the top of the Football world; a New York Times editorial declared, "Haughton is a great coach, perhaps the greatest in the annals of the American college game...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

From New Haven comes coach Jordan Olivar's boast that he has never sent a Yale team into a game in better shape. After five straight wins and a trouncing over Princeton, his team, an underdog two months ago, is now favored by most observers to beat the Crimson...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...particularly Manhattan's staid old Tiffany & Co., are not exactly noted for their sense of humor. But last week Tiffany thought it was time for a gentle chuckle and a quiet spoof on those for-the-man-who-has-everything presents. Into the Wall Street Journal went a straight-faced Tiffany ad illustrating a golf putter with a head of 14-karat gold. Price: $1,475. At the bottom of the ad, in the best Wall Street tradition, Tiffany added a line similar to those that appear on security-offering notices: "This advertisement appears for the record only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARRIAGE TRADE: The Solid-Gold Putter | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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