Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crocker award was established last spring by a group of former Harvard football players in honor of the popular 155-pound end of the 1932 team who was killed while serving on a destroyer...
...Cross Country" is producer Max Liebman's baby. He was the director and producer of last season's popular television show, "Broadway Revue," as well as a contributor to Broadway's "Call Me Mister" and "Make Mine Manhattan." His customary emphasis on dancing is evident in his latest effort. Nelle Fisher's energetic and skillful choreography is what makes the show tick. Her dancing, and that of Jerry Ross, former lead in "Call Me Mister," is fast, slick, and entertaining...
Through the programs of all 12 Niemans, certain courses run as pronounced favorites. Eleven are taking Professor Frederick Merk's "History of the Westward Movement," while other popular courses include Professor John K. Fairbank's History of "Far Eastern Civilization," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger's "Cultural History of the United States," and visiting Professor Robert Wolf's "Russia and the West...
...Foujita abruptly turned his back on all that and took off for Tokyo; he was afraid the Germans would bomb Paris. When the Pacific war came he was conscripted to paint combat pictures at $33.76 a month. Among the most popular was Raid on Pearl Harbor, done from an aerial photograph. He was bombed out of his Tokyo studio; his black bangs turned to silver. At war's end he shipped a show to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947) to raise money for a trip...
When the Department of Justice went after the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...