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...From Madison Square Garden, the circus was presented in five three-hour telecasts. The Greatest Show on Earth turned out to be one of TV's greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...tidy little musical farce about a breach-of-promise trial. The company used what actors they had left over from the excellent cast of "The Pirates," and produced it with a certain competent lightness. Enough stage business was crammed into the operetta's twenty-five minutes to fill a three-hour play, but somehow nothing seemed forced. Richard Watson as the jovial Judge and Gwyneth Cullimore as the charming but money-conscious Plaintiff helped to make the evening joyous for both the arrogant Savoyard and the man who merely likes a good tune and a good laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

Amid a cheerful first act which dulled into a restless and anticlimactic finale, the Class of 1951 pulled off the first Freshman Smoker in seven years last night before a mob of nearly 1000 Freshmen who jammed Memorial Hall for the three-hour affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '51 Packs Memorial Hall For Revival of Freshman Smoker | 3/23/1948 | See Source »

Applicants for the Law School will take a new type of entrance examination tomorrow in Langdell Hall Court in two three-hour sessions during the morning and afternoon. Prepared by the College Entrance Examination Board, the test is still experimental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Tries Out New Entrance Exams | 2/27/1948 | See Source »

...told by doctors at Los Angeles' Children's Hospital, there was only a 100-to-1 chance that he would live. The three-hour operation was successful. When he left the operating room, Don's bluish complexion was pink. Doctors believe that Fegenbush, never able to take more than ten steps at a time, will be able to leave his wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hearts & Scalpels | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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