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...bats .524 for the Senators, sings very well for the show. Richard Adler-Jerry Ross songs and Bob Fosse's dances have hardly more than the outdoor virtues, but they have the right rousingness and tingle. And William and Jean Eckart's sets are amusing and crisp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Since the war, the paper has been un-relaxed, and mimeographed with but three exceptions--printed issues for two football weekends and a Freshman Jubilee. The quality of impression and writing has varied from issue to issue and year to year, although this year's mimeography has been generally crisp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Newspaper Will Undergo 5th Annual Spring Death Tomorrow | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

...right on time, for Berenson plans his days precisely. From the moment he straps on his wristwatch (prewarmed by his butler to body temperature) to the time he stretches out for the night "with just the right pillows to support head and neck and shoulders, and the crisp cool sheets," he moves in a world of carefully controlled enjoyment. Pain and trouble are avoided whenever possible, as if there were something sinful about them. He keeps looking out for the moments of immersion in beauty which are "it," the purpose of his life. "I wonder," he wrote recently, "whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE PURSUIT OF IT | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...minded was the week's most probing social drama, Crime in the Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

Cleary opened the scoring at 5:25 of the first period by deflecting Manchester's blue-line shot into the lower left corner. In the second period, prolonged clearing troubles allowed Yale to intercept a pass, and Pete Crisp tied the score with a hard shot into the extreme upper left...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Crimson Tops Yale Six, 4-1; Cleary Scores Four Points | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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