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...comparison, Ruth's story-helped by winning performances from Virginia Vincent and Harvey Lembeck-is entertaining, though at an inch-above-comic-strip level. It suggests that when Playwright Reeves abandons pretenses and writes to please in a straight popular-comedy vein, he may very well prove pleasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...girls motioned to Carmen that her bodice was too low. Carmen began to raise it, then muttered "What the hell!" and lowered it another fraction of an inch. "The balcony is going to have a better view than we are," said a girl to one of the male gypsies. "We'll be closer to the music, though," he replied...

Author: By James F. Gilligan, | Title: One-Night Stand | 11/23/1954 | See Source »

Sargent, a six-foot, three-inch, 100-pound graduate of Haverford School, has played left halfback on the varsity for two seasons. The biggest player on the squad, Sargent may gain a place on the NCAA New England All-Star Soccer team for his performance this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sargent Leads Soccer Squad For Next Year | 11/23/1954 | See Source »

...Loretta Stone, a waitress in Arthur Parker's, who originally charged Forrester with threatening has with his six-inch knife, did not appear in court yesterday. Her charges were not entered as evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Pays Fine In Knife Incident | 11/10/1954 | See Source »

...boots, like a movie director of the Keystone Cop period), the laborers extracted a stream of beautiful things dating from the time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young Etruscan woman with a necklace of Baltic amber and a beautifully worked gold brooch an inch and a half in diameter. Another yielded a gold diadem seven inches across, decorated with bearded heads and an Amazon shooting an arrow. Equally interesting are the bronzes, one of which, a candelabra, shows the figure of Hermes leading a soul to the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Treasures of Comacchio | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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