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Santa Claus is saved from being lynched by a child, who sees through the devil's mask and identifies him. And Santa's gift, which no one would take in what Death has described as "an age of salesmanship," finds a touching-and universal-taker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Takers? | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...National Union of Students, certainly nobody's potsy, was in on building IUS from the first. The Executive Committee is not 3 to 1 composed of Reds, or Red-controlled. As to Elliott's squawk that the U. S. has only one man on the executive, how in the devil many should we have on a 17-man committee which represents 36 nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

With its reading yesterday afternoon of "The Devil's Art," a new play by Alan Friedman '49, the Harvard Dramatic Club revived the valuable practice of giving student playwrights a chance to see their work on a stage. Productions of student plays were conducted on a grand scale by the famous 47 Workshop under Professor Baker, but have been non-existent in the two decades since he was refused a theatre by President Lowell's administration and went off to Yale. There he established a great drama school with one of Harkness' millions which Lowell had turned down, while Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

...cursed him in sleeping, that every night He should dream of the devil, and wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Gilbert (1925) and Flesh and the Devil with Garbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Blanks | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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