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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common knowledge that the Volstead Act, several depressions, and the invention of four-wheel brakes have become part of history since a Harvard-Yale Game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number 64 | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

Dick Harlow will be standing by the same lineup he used to upset Brown last weekend, with the sole substitution of Stretch Mazzone at one end. The giueflugered pass receiver will be making his first Varsity start this year. Scrappy guard Jim Feinberg will act as captain in place of the permanently injured Vince Moravec. The latter will earn his letter in the traditional manner of Crimson and Blue competition by representing the team in the opening kickoff toes...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Odds Waver as Crimson Meets Blue Today in 64th Renewal of Classic | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

...over couches and double beds while singing Noel Coward's smart talk around the stage, Miss Lawrence becomes the most entertaining performer, the most scintillating personality, on the American stage. This particular Coward opus was originally presented with Miss Lawrence some years ago, and then consisted of nine one-act plays. The current edition contains only six of the nine, but the star nonetheless has ample opportunity to display her remarkably diversified talents over the course of the two evenings required to complete the cycle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

...recent outside raider, who had set up a thriving bank account on library loot, was nabbed in the act later in the summer, and confronted with Shea's typewritten records on the robberies, broke down and confessed in Cambridge police headquarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Reduces Winter Thievery | 11/19/1947 | See Source »

...Hollywood was still as clammily aloof as ever, but several foreign moviemakers were getting into the act. Gainsborough Associates agreed to procure for U.S. television several big-time British and continental films (including such hits as Mayerling and Open City). Televiewers could hope for something better than the drab diet of Bs that Hollywood provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Television News | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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