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...Annabel's best friend, Claire, betrays everybody by doing something natural, goes to bed with Addinsell. Arthur's wife, furious at the loss of a lover she never took, joins Annabel in a coterie of insulted virtue against poor Claire. All ends club-bily in a drunken brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthur Gets It Over | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Legal Brawl. The furious battle for sales was matched by a legal brawl over the question: Who has first claim on the green gold in chlorophyll toothpastes? A small pharmaceutical outfit named Rystan Co., Inc. of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. thinks that it has. Eleven years ago Rystan, which is owned by ex-Adman O'Neill Ryan Jr. and two associates, paid more than $200,000 for a patent on all medical and dental compositions of water-soluble chlorophyll derivatives. Last month a federal court in Dallas upheld Rystan's patent and awarded the company $6,727 in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Green Gold | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...game was marked by several questionable calls made by the officials, and also by several they did not make. Halfway the third quarter, the Crimson's Ed Blodnick was thrown out of the game for fighting with Yale's Spence Schnaitter but the game had begun to resemble brawl long before this...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Eli Five Romps Over Crimson, 71-51 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Brawl to Ritual. Once they had been the center of student life. They were born in the late 18th century, when students, armed with daggers and pikes, still staged a bloody brawl whenever they had a mind to. The purpose of the corporations was to eliminate most of the bloodshed. As it turned out, they merely ritualized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Tie of Blood | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Family Secret is something of a problem movie. A law school student accidentally kills his best friend in a drunken brawl. There are no witnesses and he decides not to confess. The story deals with the strained relationships arising from this situation...

Author: By Herbert S. Myers, | Title: Boots Malone and Family Secret | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

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