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...dangerous business to pile Pelion on Ossa in the field of critical praise, but it is a risk which must be taken in any appraisal of the Veterans Theater Workshop's production of "Saint Joan." Last night's performance involved some of the finest acting and most superb staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

...western countries of South America are running out of the blue chips of international exchange.Chile's war-won pile of U.S. dollars has shrunk. The dollar balances of Bolivia and Peru, never impressive, now look like peanuts. Ecuador's hoard, despite a bin-busting rice crop, has leveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Dollars to Peanuts | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...compilation of a large pile of notes, he says, indicates a lot of work but is no sign that anything has been learned. To absorb knowledge a student must master his economics or history himself and not rely on pages of printed words to do the job, Perry points out whenever he is advising a pupil...

Author: By Jay K. Weiss, | Title: Bitter Commercial Tutoring School Battle Culminated In Establishment of Original Bureau of Supervisors | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

There will also be two chain-reacting piles: one of low power like the pile now operating at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the other hundreds of times stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Workshop | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. reached deep into his pile of old records and played a 1932 piece called Heartaches. It had a bouncy tune and a catchy whistling chorus. Soon dozens of requests were coming in for Heartaches. Decca hurriedly began pressing copies of the old recording. In the past six weeks it has sold over 500,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Businessman's Bounce | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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