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...Street" is the tale of a Macchiavellian murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror...

Author: By I. M. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...pressed for time, read the first half of the book and toss it away. Some place midway between the middle and the last third, Miss Howe begins to search for a soul for Dorothea. She finds it for her--you've guessed it--not in Cambridge, but Out West, among the peepul. Not until Dorothea joins the bedpan brigade in a Boston hospital and follows it up with a train trip (tourist class) to Idaho, does she discover Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

...Washington's Willard Hotel 511 rapt students from 36 states plunked down their $12 tuition fees. In return they received an intensive four-day course in "practical politics" from the faculty of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. They were also handed some conflicting clues in the search for a liberal political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who's a Liberal? | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Labor's London Daily Herald, watching the Tory struggle for revival, scornfully referred to them as "hungry sheep" in search of grass-and of a shepherd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fish & Antichrist | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...wealthier classes took in the Braves' double-header with the Phillies. One eager Anthropology student is reported to have wandered off in search of a zoo. But the overwhelming majority were to be found in the basement of McBride's in spiritual communion with a glass of schnapps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colorful Parade Tops Celebration of Fourth | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

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