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...pace of the game was so great at the end that the teams failed to hear the final buzzer until it rang for twenty seconds. When they did stop, the BC players whacked their sticks down on the ice with disappointment, and the Crimson squad mobbed goalie Johnny Chase, who played clearly the finest game of his career in the nets...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Upsets BC, 9-8; Chase Stars | 3/1/1950 | See Source »

...Quitan-dinha Hotel at Petropolis, Baby stepped to the door, blew a shrill blast on a police whistle. As the guests scampered out, Baby tipped his straw hat to them. Another time, when he visited New York, he booked a suite of eight rooms in a Park Avenue hotel, rang up various girl friends and gave a continuous house party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Life with Baby | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...theatergoers waited until 12:30 a.m. for the curtain to go up on Inside U.S.A., starring Beatrice Lillie, after the theatrical company, aboard a train from Los Angeles, was snowbound in the Cascade Mountains. The weary, determined players performed for the weary, determined audience until the final curtain rang down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...lights went out; eggs and tomatoes flew. The dark hall rang with women's screams, the thud of chairs wielded in combat, and the scuffle and bump of poetry lovers colliding in midflight. As if to prove that there was more at issue than the quality of the verse, there were cries of "Down with Franco!" Doña Alicia, opening her mouth to call for police, caught a slap squarely in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanish Omelet | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...bells of St. Stephen's were pealing again, in homage to the holy season. From the soaring spire of Vienna's beautiful old cathedral they rang out the hopes and fears of hard-pressed little Austria-and they spoke, too, with a solemn undertone for all the Western world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Bells of St. Stephen's | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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