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...less equal strength. In the first period the best two of these lines produced three goals. But for the rest of the game the plan didn't work: each line constantly revealed its understandable lack of co-ordination, and this, coupled with several severe defensive lapses and a sub-par game by goalie Johnny Chase, cost Harvard the game...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Six Collapses, Bows to Brown, 8-3 | 1/11/1950 | See Source »

...look like. Fifteen thousand of them converged on Manhattan for the 116th convention of the "Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave. They streamed from meeting to meeting, interrupted the speakers, held sub-conclaves in corners. Even a casual glance at the Triple-A S gave proof that U.S. science is on its toes, confident and properly concerned with running down facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 15,000 Scientists | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Most people go to Hope pictures to see the great man mug, and to hear the latest from the sub-artistic world of two line jokes. Unfortunately in "The Great Lover" the unwilling aficionados are subjected to long sequences in which Roland. Young polishes off a recent Yale graduate with the napkin from a champagne bottle, and a half dozen small children plot together, trying to act grown-up. In addition Hope is forced to portray a character out of North Zanesville, Ohio. He is therefore not nearly so funny as when he is portraying Bob Hope...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...games were such things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet kit ("containing also an actual television script.") There was also a miniature candy-vending machine (subway-type) which required pennies to operate...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...Stormy Weather" was filmed in 1943 and is now being re-released a month after the death of Bill Robinson. It has a plot, although a sub-microscopic one. If you separate one song-and-dance routine from the next, you will find, jammed between, a few incidents in the life of Bill Robinson...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

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