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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart Director Laszlo Halasz has little money to work with. On his last night in Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Seven Veils in Chicago | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...telescope also has another ailment. Complicated tests have proved that the edge of the mirror responds to temperature changes more quickly than the center. This makes the glass expand and contract unevenly, throwing the mirror's curvature out of whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trouble on Palomar | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...boogie-woogie pianist and short-order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by rushing. The other lineman was Penn's 220-lb. Center Chuck Bednarik, alias The Clutch, a bear for handing out punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: PLAYERS-OF-THE-YEAR | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ragtime Hooligans | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...press release announcing the meeting, the society defined its credo as "religion grounded on human values and ideals rather than in supernaturalism. Its beliefs center about man, and its gtoal is happiness for man in this life, the only one about which we have knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Humanist Society Hears Friedrich | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

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