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...theater piece, Cue for Passion holds attention and, with no greater indebtedness than many Broadway rewrites, uses a far happier model. But as creative drama it is too explicit, too unlarge, in its writing too literary-often seeming, not like prose as compared to Shakespeare's poetry, but like prose as distinct from talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Last week, the former president spoke with warmth of "two convictions which never failed me-that the foundation principle on which Radcliffe was built was solid as rock, and that no college could be happier in those who served and supported and believed in her." Few would deny that chief among those who served is Ada Comstock Notestein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Radcliffe's First | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

TOLL-ROAD TROUBLES are easing a bit, giving holders of $4.7 billion worth of bonds somewhat happier view of their investment. End of recession plus opening of important new access roads has boosted traffic to cover eight big turnpikes' current interest cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...small number of mal-contents in each House whom no amount of deconversion, privacy, or fringe benefits can convert to the enjoyment of House life. It seems silly to keep these damned souls within the walls when they--and those who have to live with them--would be happier apart. Quincy House, despite Master Bullitt's wishes, will no doubt absorb part of the discontented and adventurous few, but the others will remain a burden to their respective Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nuns Fret Not | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

...extremely talented and valuable member of our company, but it was Group 20's Managing-Director, Miss Alison Ridley, who was entirely responsible for obtaining the rights to the play, after six months of work on this point. As Managing-Directors so rarely receive the limelight which is the happier lot of their actors, I have taken it upon myself to see that recognition for this theatrical coup be assigned where it rightly belongs. Wendell Weston, Group 20 Players of Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIVE HUE OF RESOLUTION | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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