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...Hampshire resorts, Franconia's Cannon Mt. was classified as fair to good on the upper trails and excellent on the slope. Intervale, Laconia's Belknap Mts., Mt. Sunapee, and North Conway's Mt. Cranmore were all termed excellent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.E. Ski Conditions | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

Artist Ben Shahn, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, did his best to ring the death knell last night on Clive Bell's influential critical cannon that representation is unimportant in painting...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Shahn Sees Strife In Image and Idea | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...British Venoms from Cyprus were raking nine airfields, including three in the canal zone, with cannon fire and delayed action bombs. The pilots said they destroyed at least 14 planes on the ground, including hangars, the Associated Press reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Assembly Votes for Cease-Fire in Mid-East | 11/2/1956 | See Source »

...taut, discerning glimpse into the shabby world of prizefighting. The plot dealt with an also-ran pug (Jack Palance) who is put out to pasture after in bone-bruising bouts, and finds it jarringly hard to adjust. He is a tough, disfigured blob of flesh who "could take a cannon ball in the face"; but he is also a gentle man, painfully aware of his ugliness. He is bounced around by some seedy managers and hangers-on ("Why is it," asks Trainer Ed Wynn, playing his first straight part on TV, "so many people have to feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Biggest Playhouse | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Atom Cannon. In Manhattan, although police testified that two patrolmen were knocked to the ground when Howard Simms's pistol accidentally discharged as one of them tried to unhook it from his belt, the court found Simms innocent of carrying a firearm, concluded the cops "must have been leaning pretty far over when they were knocked down," gave the defendant back his 1-in.-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 8, 1956 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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