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DENVER, Jan. 7--Hockey Coach Neil Colley of Denver University said today that a Harvard coach (Cooney Weiland's) objection to Canadian players on western college teams "is the same old criticism we hear every year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Canadians O.K. With D.U. Coach | 1/8/1954 | See Source »

...Relapse (by Sir John Vanbrugh; produced by the Theatre Guild) reached Broadway just 254 years after it first opened in London. Among the last of the Restoration comedies, it was written to refute the first of the sentimental ones-Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.* Otherwise Vanbrugh wrote with small sense of purpose and merely to entertain. The play tells two barely contiguous stories: one-the frilly, mannered tale of Loveless' backsliding-is pure Restoration bawdry; the other-the lusty courtship of a panting, pent-up hoyden-is timeless low comedy. Morally, also, the play faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...have just returned from a stay at the Stillman Infirmary. Through your newspaper I would like to express my thanks to the staff of the Infirmary and the Hygiene Department for the excellent care that I received. Donald G. Colley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Likes Stillman | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

After a brief, unhappy career as a wine salesman, Garrick wheedled his way on to the stage. He was an almost immediate success. At the age of 24 he revolutionized English acting with his performance of Colley Gibber's version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style. They had recited, but he acted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lively Davy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Idaho City, Idaho (pop. 273) is only a ghost of a town, but its leading citizens still pack a punch. Editor John Colley, who publishes the weekly Idaho Mountaineer and pitches for the town's oft-beaten baseball team, criticized some of the fielders editorially for not playing hard enough. Last week Editor Colley's paper carried a front-page box: "This issue is a day late. The editor has two shiners. Caustic journalism doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fighting Spirit | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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