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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student apathy may put the Radcliffe Yearbook out of existence this year, according to Margaret Lestina '58, Editor. The Yearbook must have a guarantee of 300 sales and about $1500 in advertising to break even, Miss Lestina said yesterday. In recent years, no Yearbook has sold more than 275 copies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Yearbook Sees Threat Of Possible Financial Failure | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

Tufts scored the first of its two, midway in the second period, after Harvard had taken a 2-0 lead. The Jumbos' second point tied the score early in the last half. A double overtime period failed to break the deadlock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Soccer Team Battles To 2-2 Overtime Deadlock | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

...other corporations are not so benevolent. The Timex Watch Company last week dropped its sponsorship of Bob Hope's program because the comedian appeared on a show in which a Bulova commercial came on before, not after, the station break. This supposedly associated Hope's name with that of a rival company. In such an atmosphere, programming--in fact a personality--becomes merely an effective way of selling, thus precluding any originality or inventiveness which might endanger this ability...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Idiot Box | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...group will be non-profit, but will attempt to break even financially. "We are able to produce just good theatre," Mee said, "without sets and without money. The emphasis will be on performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Actors Form 'Cambridge Repertory' For Local Institutions | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...title role. Pal Joey was a hoofer in the play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent as a pickle waved beneath the moviegoer's nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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