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...Beer is essentially a man's drink," wrote six irate drys in a counter-petition. "The picture of women in the senior women's college attempting to sink their pints would be pathetic and ridiculous." Nonsense, cried a wet: "It's about time we had some equality with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ferment at Oxford | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Last week Lucy Sutherland, principal of Lady Margaret, sided with the wets. From now on, Lady Margaret's girls may sink their pints just like undergrads at Oxford's 23 colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ferment at Oxford | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...part the Anderson Bridge must play will be a difficult one--unrewarding, steady, and dull. It is our guess, however, that the old bridge will meet its new role with calm dignity. And if perchance, the structure should someday sink into the muddy depths of the Charles, the Nicholas Longworth Anderson Bridge will still stand as a symbol a symbol of many things to many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/9/1951 | See Source »

...alternating sequences, Lieut. Commander Wayne tries to sink enemy ships and salvage his duty-wrecked marriage with burning-eyed Navy Nurse Patricia Neal. Actor Wayne's flinty authority as a man of action crumbles under the trite situations and dialogue ashore. For comic relief, the picture rings in the disheveled aftermath of the enlisted men's shore leave, a scene that plays much better where it played earlier, in Broadway's Mister Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Captain Pilcher sat glum and alone And muttered with heart-rending moan: "The archbishop will float If he falls out the boat, While my fortunes will sink like a stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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