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Habit. In Amagansett, N.Y., Alan Vass. charged with burglary when police found 79 pairs of women's shoes (all sizes 5 to 6) in his attic and garage, was ready with his explanation: "My wife once said she liked that kind. I got started taking them and couldn't stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Three students this morning cornered a burly prowler under an attic bed on 9 Bow Street, stripped him of his glasses and his top coat, bent a poker over his skull, and then lot the intruder slip from their grasp and escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Prowler Flees 3 Students In Bow St. Raid | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

John Philip Emerson '50 of Winthrop House received two awards of $100 each for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and for a translation into Latin of a passage from John Ruskin's "The Crown of Wild Olive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Bowdoin Prize Winners Named | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Meadowbrook! (by Ronald Telfer and Pauline Jamerson; produced by John Yorke) is a bedroom farce that should have been left in the attic. Under his psychoanalyst's orders, a mousy, middle-aged English taxidermist (Ernest Truex) stalks sex on a Connecticut weekend. All the women in the house beat a path to his door-the housekeeper (Sylvia Field), the hostess (Grace McTarnahan) and a worldly lady playwright with heart of brass (Vicki Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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