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...heat of the play steadily increased as Sullivan made it 9-7 at 16:14 and the Arena went berserk when Jack Carman was put off at 18:27 for high sticking and BC pulled its goalie in favor of a sixth skater...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Upsets BC, 9-8; Chase Stars | 3/1/1950 | See Source »

...very fine," Tito remarked, "but sometimes we find the films a little foolish." I asked him about his favorite films and he beamed: "Cowboy films and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy." I asked him if he liked Charlie Chaplin. "Modern Times," said Tito, imitating the scene where Chaplin goes berserk and runs around twitching two wrenches. "He has made several since that one," I said. "In one he imitates Hitler." "You mean The Great Dictator?" inquired Tito blandly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Broncobuster | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...gigantic it usually overshadows the other movements. That was certainly the case last weekend. The Orchestra faithfully pledged through the first three movements. There were occasional groans from the audience when one of the brass players (hired specially to meet the requirements of Mahler's bloated score) went berserk. But starting with Nan Mcrriman's contralto solo in the fourth movement, things began to pick up, and by the time the Finale came along, everyone had forgotten the preceding movements...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: Mahler's Second Symphony | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Malaya seemed to have gone berserk. Arson had become commonplace. Workers battled police with spears and picks. Posters cried: "Destroy those who work for other races." Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner of the Malay Federation, proclaimed a state of emergency, granted extraordinary powers to the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: How to Fill a Vacuum | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Shelby, N.C. movie theater, Veteran Arbuth Bumgarner, 26, who was bombed while a patient in a Normandy hospital, suddenly went berserk, stabbed his wife and then himself with his pocketknife. The movie "drove him nuts," he explained. It showed the bombing of a Normandy hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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