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...Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

...longest split-week in Harvard's theatrical history is beginning to suffer from a glut of empty seats. Like Benny and Allen, the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veteran's Theatre Workshop seem to think there's nothing like a feud to fill the stands. The stunt is wearing thin, though, and readers of the daily communiques are beginning to wonder why both groups don't fold their flats and silently steal away to squabble in a small, warm, soundproofed room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 10/9/1947 | See Source »

...Indian Reservation at Tama, Iowa, Charlie Davenport took a close look at the squaw corn,† noted that its husks were loose and thin, predicted that the U.S. would have a long Indian summer and that real winter would probably not set in until after Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Tito relaxed his talons, and the three American G.I.s and their mongrel mascot, which had shared their Yugoslav captivity with them, marched back to freedom. The Yugoslavs made the snatch last week while feeling out how far they could bluff the thin line of U.S. troops into bending back the new Yugoslav-Trieste frontier which they were guarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Out of the Shadows | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Upwards of 60 thin-clad soccer players descend every afternoon on the Business School Field and in amongst them Coach James MacDonald is building a team with a scoring punch. With the largest soccer squad in Harvard history Mac is having his troubles but spirit is not one of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Eleven To Play Scans In Scrimmage | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

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