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...president of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, will play the lead opposite Monty Woolley in the role of Maggie Cutler, the "Man's" secretary. Pola Chasman of Emerson College will appear as Lorraine Sheldon, and Robert M. Cipes '50 takes the part of Banjo. Paul S. Burggraf '48 will play Bert Jefferson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Names Cast Of 30 to Support 'The Man' Monty | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

Retailers who had seen consumer credit dip during January, for the first time in three years, now thought that the easier credit would pep up sales. Said Bert Baker, Detroit's biggest used-car dealer: "I figure we can sell 20% more cars right off the reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Way Spiral | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Prescott Bohn and James Stewart presented a concert by the Crimson Stompers in the Common Room after dinner while Joe Heaney and Bert Karon passed out free beer in Thayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex and Beer Used to Garner Votes | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

...skits and spiels, which are the backbone of a prosperous revue, break the back of this one. The least trying sketches garner what laughs they get not through witty comments but through waggish props. And Co-Star Bert Wheeler (Rio Rita), chatting before the curtain, is seldom much fun. His patter droops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Party Line. Worker writers turn in their copy to half a dozen editors, known to the rest of the staff as "commissars." The city editors, Eric Bert and Joe Clark, are little more than routing clerks. The commissars censor every bit of copy, iron out minor kinks in the party line, or send the stories and headlines back to be rewritten if the facts don't fit the party's position of the day. For Worker staffers and contributors-Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The House on Twelfth Street | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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