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Word: alton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough lady ambassador. Irving Berlin's catchy score is practically intact (dropped: the topical I Like Ike; added: Berlin's 1913 The International Rag and his 1940 What Chance Have I with Love?). At its Technicolored best-with Walter Lang's zestful direction, Robert Alton's dances and a topnotch supporting cast-the movie is a bouncier, better show than it was on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Charlie Ufford because the first player to reach the semi-finals of the All-University squash tournament yesterday by defeating Alton Flagg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ufford Beats Flagg, Gains Squash Semis | 3/17/1953 | See Source »

...Once again musicomedy, in the act of satirizing something else, has ended by satirizing itself-by pointing up its own excesses of color, blare, manpower and above all, length. Jule Styne's pounding music suggests a New York that never sleeps, and unconsciously gives the reason why Robert Alton's dances get to be relentlessly, unremittingly lively. If only there were less of everything in Hazel Flagg, it might add up to a great deal more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...play, "Miss Lucy in Town," a fares by Henry Fielding, featured the appearance as tutor to the Prince, of Housemaster John H. Finley, Jr. '25. Miss Lucy, the heroine whose naivete leads to the crucial scence above, was played by Alton Peters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alas, Poor Zorobabel | 12/17/1952 | See Source »

...number of Italian cardinals to 27 (v. an Italian membership of 35 when Eugenic Pacelli became Pius XII in 1939). Three of the new cardinals are from Latin America (Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil), one from Canada. Other non-Italians: two Spaniards, one German, one Irishman (Archbishop D'Alton of Armagh in Northern Ireland) and two Frenchmen, giving France the highest number of cardinals (six) after Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 24 Hats | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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