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...money in. "Man!" he screams, "I'm a volcano ... a giant surrounded by ants!" When Mamma takes $3,500 and plunks it down on a house, the giant blubbers so pathetically that she hands him the rest. With boundless enthusiasm, the hero hands the wad to the first con man he meets. But in the end, with a sudden, improbable access of intelligence, he "comes into his manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Acute Ghettoitis | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...Hasty Pudding's Pro and Con will come closer than any of its 112 predecessors to playing on Broadway when the boys flash their synchronized kick-line at a special closed performance for the Rockettes next Thursday in Radio City Music Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HPT to Perform 1961 Production Before Rockettes | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...Pudding's annual spring tour of eastern Harvard Clubs, was arranged by Rockette Jean Kittell, the kick-line specialist for this years' show. Members of the Pudding cast will be guests of the Rockettes for the Music Hall's floor show, and will put on Pro and Con for the dancers in a basement auditorium during the showing of the feature movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HPT to Perform 1961 Production Before Rockettes | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

After opening the spring tour Monday at the Harvard Club in Millburn, N.J., Pro and Con will move to New York City for a two-day stand, including the special matinee. Performances in Bedford, N.Y., and Northampton, Mass., will conclude the tour. One of the show's executives pointed out that "if you miss it in Cambridge, you can still catch it in Northampton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HPT to Perform 1961 Production Before Rockettes | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...parents how the Ivy are similar and how they was also attempting to the individual personality institutions. But, according accounts, the only significant between any two Ivy the size of their libaries. the Ivy League sound rather drab institutions, only by the their sameness and their and single-minded con on the academic...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: The Ivy League: Unvarying Mediocrity? | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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