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Coming from behind three times during the course of a keenly contested encounter, the hockey team subdued a Williams six by a 3 to 2 score yesterday afternoon at Williamstown. The victory was a doubly pleasing one, as it was not only the team's first of the season, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET EDGES WILLIAMS, 3-2 FOR SEASON'S FIRST VICTORY | 2/6/1941 | See Source »

Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Gruff, creaking old (62) Lionel Barrymore heard the Los Angeles WPA Orchestra perform his symphony, Tableau Russe, was so amazed he decided to finish another symphony he started a few years back. Grunted Composer Barrymore, who practices many arts: "It is not only amusing but pleasing to have all this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Following nights, the Met noodled through a routine Walküre, a passable Madame Butterfly. Then it presented Samson and Delilah, with its first U. S.GALLERY-GOERS AT THE MET Also present: orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Opened the Opera | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

A chalet-type hostelry has been added to the facilities of Franco. It is operated by Hans Thorner, who in recent winters has conducted a ski school at Pinkham Notch. Skiers will be in forested to know that Ted Hunter, former Dartmouth and Olympic team skier who is now a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

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