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...Musical in Manhattan Flahooley (music by Sammy Fain; book & lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Harburg & Saidy) is a lavish attempt by the creators of Finian's Rainbow to repeat their success. They fail, in part perhaps from too laboriously repeating their formula. Once again they have mingled the tinkling sheep bells of fantasy with the braying loudspeakers of satire, this time robbing the Arabian Nights while ribbing American Big Business. What results is all the hurly-burly of a carnival with very little of the gaiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Goodbye, My Fancy (Warner], a slick adaptation of the 1948 Broadway hit comedy, gives Joan Crawford a chance to preen her plumage and practice her intellect as a glamorous Congresswoman who would sooner compromise a man than an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...script takes Congresswoman Crawford back to Good Hope College, to accept an honorary degree and renew her friendship with a professor (Robert Young), now the college president, whom she shielded 20 years before when she was expelled from college for staying out all night with him. She is pursued by a LIFE photographer (Frank Lovejoy), who wants to renew the romance they began when she was a glamorous war correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Last March, the U.N. command in Korea knew that some kind of epidemic was rampant north of the parallel. Medical officers feared it might be bubonic plague, but could not be sure. Brigadier General Crawford Sams, of Atherton, Calif., U.N. Army Chief of Public Health & Welfare, volunteered to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Germ Commando | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Crawford of the Westridge School in Pasadena, California, has won first people in the Radcliffe English prize scholarship examination, Dean Kerby-Miller announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Chooses Three English Prize Exams | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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