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...patchwork quilt day, a day of multi-colored squares, a day which means something different to every individual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why? | 10/7/1950 | See Source »

...first glance it appeared that the President was making a low bow to RFC's critics. There was no doubt that RFC's management had been sadly inept under Chairman Hise. And his vague explanations about some of RFC's multi-million-dollar loans during his regime had satisfied practically nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Low Bow? | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Bigelow. Bigelow, Professor of Zoology, introduced oceanography to the University together with Alexander Agassiz and founded the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute for study of marine life, Undoubtedly the world's greatest expert on jellyfish about which he once wrote a monograph, Bigelow was especially able at getting around the multi-syllabled terminology of oceanography and explaining the science in homespun style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 13 Members of Faculty Bid Farewell To Their Posts This June and August | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

Married. Marshall Field Jr., 33, son of multi-millionaire Publisher Marshall Field, assistant publisher and associate editor of his father's Chicago Sun-Times; and Katherine Woodruff, 22, daughter of an Illinois banker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Joliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

With hardly any waste motion behind the scenes, Liebman gets plenty of movement on the TV screen. In 27-year-old Sid Caesar he has a TV-raised multi-dimensional comedian who is equally convincing as a slot machine, a head-lolling infant, a British general or a Freudian psychiatrist just off the plane from Vienna. Caesar's comedy partner is pint-sized Imogene Coca ("No one knows how old she is"), who can switch from a prim Victorian to a stripteaser to a Wagnerian Valkyrie without missing a nuance or a laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Show | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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