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There'll be more Crimson teams operating in Cambridge this week than you can shake a cliche at the winter sports squads get going in earnest. The varsity squash team starts things off this afternoon when it meet the Harvard Club of Boston, and tomorrow night, the varsity and freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Question: Basketball or Track? | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

Here is a two-and-a-half hour cliche out of Hollywood, and it's in technicolor. Everything breathtaking that has ever been done before pops up in it sooner or later. But "The Three Musketeers" goes to such ludicrous extremes that it is hilarious. Every time something violent is...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Three Musketeers | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

If Joe Schmoe told you that somebody positively isn't an anti-semite because this somebody just said that "some of his best friends are Jews," you would probably think Joe was kidding. That happened to me last winter, only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Here, in a superhuman cliche, ends the first chapter of Columbia's newest serial, finished last week. Superman, which cost $350,000, is one of the most expensive serials ever made. It will not be seen on Broadway, nor reviewed in the papers, but it will play in 7...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cliff-Hangers | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Anyone who is curious about how bestsellers are put together might profit from a hard look at Peony. Here, in a neat economy package, are crammed all the formula-tested and cliche-ripe ingredients for which book-club members seem to have an insatiable appetite. (Peony, a Literary Guild selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Customs & Cliches | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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