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...sixth New Theatre Workship production, In the Lion's Mouth by Erik Amfitheatrof, is full of sound and fury, signifying little that has not already been well explored. But it is, for all its excess philosophy, an exciting play. In fact, its main fault lies in the effort Mr. Amfitheatrof has made to achieve excitement. His characters indulge in a good deal too much swearing and beating upon one another--both gems of stock dramaturgy that are below the author's general high plane of plot construction...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: In The Lion's Mouth | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...ERIK WAHLGREN University of California Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Following their regimen, the Swedes ate nothing for four hours before the meet. Explained Coach Erik Linden, 46, known as the father of modern Swedish gymnastics: "A starving dog hunts better." Linden believes that a good gymnast "must work harder than a ballet dancer, though he must have the same natural gifts-a supple body, good balance and above all a sense of rytm [rhythm]." The hungry Swedes, full of rytm, won five of the six events. Star of the show: Swedish Cham pion Borje Stattin, 23, a typographer by trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscular Missionaries | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...have no trouble accepting the Kensington stone. Allegedly found near Kensington, Minn, by Farmer Olof Ohman in 1898, the stone, inscribed in runic characters, tells of a band of Norsemen who wandered to Minnesota in 1362 and presumably died there of Indian-trouble.* Last week Professor (of Germanic languages) Erik Wahlgren of U.C.L.A. pooh-poohed the petrophiles. He had positive proof, he said, that the stone was faked by the late Farmer Ohman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Farmer's Fun | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...Franck, Grey Hodnett, Henry C. Holmes, Alfred M. Hoyt (Capt.), David C. Jordan, Frederick W. Kaufmann, Archibald I. Leyashmeyer, George W. McGarrity, Thomas B. Molholm, Grayson M. P. Murphy, III, Francis L. S. Newell, Stephen Parker, James K. Polese, Clifford A. Rand, Jr., Stephen P. Reibel, Michael S. Robertson, Erik J. Stapper, Ingvars J. Vitands, Harry J. Wexler, John M. P. Donovan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 180 Athletes Win Letters For Competition in Fall, 1953 | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

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