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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inevitable conflicts with other social events and with final examinations" have caused the move, which comes at a time when arrangements for the affair are nearly complete. Regardless of the change in date, all guests and entertainers will appear as planned, Leventhal stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '48 Sets Smoker Of 'Flowing Beer' For spring Term | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

Yardling social plans for the spring term include a series of informal dances and one formal affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tickets for Freshman Ball Reach 200 Mark | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

After the fig-leaf affair that blossomed and burst here some weeks ago, it might be dangerous to mention that the Veterans Theater, delivering the "world premiere" of William Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon" tonight, was thinking of a scene in which scantily-clad souls, awaiting reincarnation, flit around a dimly-lighted stage. Latest reports have it, however, that flesh-colored tights will not be worn. From its name, it may seem that the Veterans Theater, a group newly organized by Jerome Kilty '49, has some affiliation with an old Army or Navy clique. On the contrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 12/4/1946 | See Source »

Jacques-of-All-Letters Philippe Soupault, one of the founding fathers of surrealism, examined love-in-the-U.S., shuddered at what he saw, reported in the French review Modern Times that "Americans consider a love affair in the same light as a crime." The fear of love, he observed, produces nervous disorders, and "there are more maladjusted people in America than in any other country in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Restored to dazzling old Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, at police headquarters, was the bracelet she had lost on opening night at the opera (TIME, Nov. 25). It was only a $5,000 affair of 140 diamonds and seven emeralds, but she loved it, and to the woman who had found it on the opera-house floor Mrs. Kavanaugh gave $250. While reporters and photographers watched closely, the loser, in a Norwegian fox jacket and pearls, and the finder, in something modest in black, made the trade. The finder, who used to be a cook, guessed she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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