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More aggressively Irish than a swinging shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...full complement of cardinals is 70, a figure set in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V to correspond with the 70 elders of Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Hats? | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Early in the season Harper lamented chronically about shallow reserves, but reasons for these complaints have gradually vanished. As it stands now he can complement his starting lineup, composed of Bill Hickey, Bill Borah, John Stevenson, Jim Downey, and Jerry Murphy, with at least three reliable substitutes in the persons of Al Switzer, Ambrose Redmond, and A. Turovetz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Hockey, Swim, Basketball Games Highlight Weekend | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

...defense to fill Moseley's place tonight, with Steve Howe joining Dick Greeley on defense. Greeley has decided to take his chances with two hour exams tomorrow and play tonight, and since Johnny Chase's damaged eye is in good repair once more, Harvard will have its full defensive complement on hand...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Hockey Team Faces Brown Away Tonight | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

Last week, Manhattan opera fans were given a pretty good idea of what The Duenna is all about. Greenwich Village's aggressive little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8) had acquired two vocal scores from which it squeezed out an arrangement for two pianos and a full complement of 19 singers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Slightly Bourgeois | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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