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The Wellesley junior show is basically a Hasty Pudding show with girls. Complete with slapstick and jokes. It haphazardly weaves back and forth across the thin line between childishness and delightful nonesense.

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Charmed I'm Sure | 10/19/1963 | See Source »

Penn had its big chance for an upset last week. Now it's too late. The Brown Bears are finally a respectable football team, and this week Jim Dunda is scheduled to return. What with the Quakers still recovering from the Tiger fight and Dunda now trying to win his...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Easy Day Predicted for Dartmouth; Cornell, Brown Should Triumph | 10/19/1963 | See Source »

If the humor isn't always subtle, at least it makes you laugh. Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Mouse, Caretakers | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Such doings may sound like something the author picked up at the last sale of Waugh assets. Actually, this account of the giddy life in an upper-class club for young women in London just after V-E day is touched by a cheerful inhumanity all Muriel Spark's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of Eden | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Five feet tall and 76 years old, Edna Ferber is a human word factory. Over the past 52 years she has co-authored seven plays and written 25 books. Slick, romantic and melodramatic, her novels will never win her an interview with the Paris Review. But she is an acerbic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glimpses of a Half-Century | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

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