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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Hollywood hubbub over television's steadily rising power (see RADIO & TV), everyone conceded that the ones who were sure to get it in the neck were the nation's theater owners. But by last week the theatermen could report that they don't even feel a crick. Latest figures showed 23,397 movie houses (3,508 of them drive-ins) now operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: By the Numbers | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...schoolmaster of the County Primary School in Offord, Huntingdonshire, England, wanted to do something for the Festival of Britain and asked his pupils for suggestions. One of them had an ambitious idea: "Why not write a book?" Schoolmaster James W. Crick put it up to 13 of his senior students; they thought it was a splendid notion. By last week, Offord had a history of itself it could be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Write History | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...offense: bucketing out to Hollywood to make a movie called Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick when he should have been 1) singing Figaro in the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville, and 2) joining the rest of the Met company on its spring tour of 13 cities which starts this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You're Fired | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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