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There it was, the millennium between thumb and forefinger, all set to pop into the world's wide mouth. But history has always had a deft way of palming the millennium till later in the show; and in Frank Norris' tricky piece of pseudohistorical vaudeville, Nutro 29, now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Deferred | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Wind & Dollars. By the time it ends (with the millennium safely postponed by Government control of the pill), Author Norris has jabbed his needle left & right, high & low, popping gas pockets all over the current scene. Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Deferred | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Novelist Norris. a senior editor of Newsweek, has set out to write a satire of the times, and he has not quite achieved it; satire calls for a steady hand, a rapier that can reach bone. He does show that he can wield the needle of burlesque with some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Deferred | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Singles--Norris (Y) defeated Craig, 6-4, 6-2; Lynch (Y) defeated Hughes, 6-0, 6-0, Bramhall (H) defeated Hand, 6-3, 0-6, 6-3; Frey (H) defeated Fischi, 6-4, 6-1; Kaynes (H) defeated Schwartz, 6-3, 7-5; Stokes (Y) defeated Cohodes, 5-7, 6...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Net Team Loses, 11-4, to Yale; '53 Downs Blue, 5-4 | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

Doubles--Norris and Lynch (Y) defeated Craig and Hughes, 6-0, 6-3; Hand and Fischl (Y) defeated Bramhall and Peterson, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5; Schwartz and Sloat (Y) defeated Combs and Goodman, 7-5, 6-4; Bliss and Hooe (Y) defeated Frey and Kaynes (H), 7-5...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Net Team Loses, 11-4, to Yale; '53 Downs Blue, 5-4 | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

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