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Sometimes a great play can carry its message over to the audience no matter how bad the production. But even "Streetcar" is having a tough time at the Boston Summer Theatre. Poor direction and unsure characterizations rob much of the power from Tennessee WilWilliams' masterpiece...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 8/2/1951 | See Source »

Negro boy named Doodoo Lawrence and inducted him into a Robin Hood band. Costumed in green and armed with bows, they would swoop down on some rich squire (such as a boy carrying groceries home), rob him and eat his riches in the forest. In Port Clyde, Maine, where the family spent the summers, Andy found another native nonconformist. Together they learned to handle a dory in heavy surf and to loot lobstermen's pots at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: American Realist | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Irwin's picture on a "Wanted" poster, and told the whole story. Yet no one spotted the fugitive and his captive. Irwin hocked Gilbert's watch and the engagement ring for $15, and forced the girl into a bus. Irwin grew confidential again. He was going to rob a rich uncle in Doylestown, Pa. and "give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Wilson once again gained top individual honors. The new holder of the Harvard discus title won the discus and the shotput and took second in the hammer. Another double winner was Charlie Durakis, who captured the high and low hurdle events. Sophomore Rob Twitchell placed second to Durakis each time...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Trackmen Take 13 Firsts, Whip Crusaders, Terriers | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Nose to the Grindstone. In Edmonton, Alberta, Tony Solar, 18, answered 21 charges of car-stealing and shop-breaking: "I didn't want to steal cars, but I didn't have no transportation to get out in the country and rob stores at night, so I had to steal cars fo get to my jobs." In Elwin, 111., a gang of men in three automobiles and a truck pulled up to an appliance store, spent two hours looting the place, politely told the manager's wife before making off with her jewelry and $3,500 in cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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