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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewers who have to say something anyhow. There is one really hilarious sketch in which she appears as a salesman for a torrid perfume whose motto is "When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face; in another she soberly walks across the stage in a straight line, carrying a pair of skis and is very funny just doing that; in another she serves as a bean-bag for a couple of South American...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...series of articles, Griflin included Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Kirtley F. Mather, and Harlow Shapley among these at "Harvard . . . noted in the east for its stable of professors who frequently come out from behind their books to toe the communist party line, perhaps absent mindedly." Lyons produces evidence such as the anti-communist articles Professor Schlesinger has written for Henry Luce to spotlight the absurdity of the Tribune's assertions. In another article headlined "Red Teaching at Harvard is Insidious" the Tribune attacked Granville Hicks '23 and Felix Frankfurter '06, neither of whom as Lyons points out, have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lyons Denies Entire Chicago Tribune Ivy League 'Smear' | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...justice was swift-he could expel or cane offenders with the same sort of severity that has made Etonians tremble for five centuries. But he sometimes showed a compassion all his own. "That was a very understandable transgression," he would say to an offender, blinking sympathetically behind his spectacles. Then he would add: "One thousand lines," and send the boy to write out his punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Emperor Abdicates | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...remember, one more question like that and it's behind the barbed wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear Virginia . . . | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...question of whether or not the wife should be told just what she faces, there is no evidence that anyone in front of the camera or behind it has heard of stoical, let alone Christian reasons, for telling and facing that kind of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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