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...lowest-scoring series ever played. It was also one of the most colorless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Romp | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Overnight, Democrats were plunged into deepest gloom. Meeting in Rochester's Hotel Seneca last week, convention delegates glumly went through the motions of approving the ticket their bosses had chosen for them. Their nominee for governor was to be Representative Walter Lynch, an able but colorless six-term Bronx Congressman with an undeviating New and Fair Deal record. Facing the press, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick bravely discussed his qualifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Major Battleground | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...plays Sparkish the fop, achieves a success of a different kind. Sparkish could turn out no more than a fop, an elaborately dressed, self-conscious waver of lace handkerchiefs, but Mr. Ritchard manages by his impressive diction and equally impressive frame to give real color to Wycherley's essentially colorless character. His Sparkish is an excellent example of how a really fine actor can make something out of almost nothing...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 5/16/1950 | See Source »

...Please!. At times even their own material deserts them, and little else is ever on their side. Jack Albertson has an engagingly easy manner; and Roger Price, a recurrent monologuist with a sketchbook, says some funny things, but by no means often enough. For the rest, a number of colorless young people romp around in various wobbly sketches and sing some tormentingly vapid love songs. Since the Hartmans are the whole show, it's too bad they aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...final A League game, Adams set back third-place Lowell in a colorless contest. The Rollboys lost their shooting eyes completely in the final minutes of the see-saw contest and handed the Gold coasters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Downs Winthrop, 68-25, for 9th Court Win | 3/2/1950 | See Source »

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