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...spare time, charges $10 for ten months of club membership. For this, the member gets a chance to buy a pair of tickets, at the box-office price, to the club's monthly show selection, or an alternate. He also gets the club newspaper's breathless bulletins on forthcoming shows and, as an occasional "bonus," a chance to buy tickets at a discount to a preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Standing Room Only | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Provost Buck announced to a breathless Student Council the gory details of a new 4 tuition rise. But fortunately for the more sensitive members of that august body, Buck couched his $76 fee fattener among some noble new plans for improvements in the plant and teaching of Harvard College...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...incident. Getting down off the knoll when they were ordered to retire, they almost lost their captain. Shrapnel killed Captain Truman's horse, which rolled over, pinning him underneath. Lieutenant Victor Housholder lifted up enough of the dead horse so that the boys could drag out their breathless captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Old Stiffs | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

When TIME'S Lester Bernstein and Researcher Jean Sulzberger turned up at Actress Tallulah Bankhead's country home recently for a 3 p.m. pre-cover story (TIME, Nov. 22) interview, Tallulah, "up and dressed," met them at the door and began to talk. After 20 breathless minutes she suddenly stopped her torrential discourse and said: "Now, ask me another question." Says Miss Sulzberger: "We hadn't even opened our mouths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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