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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, he wrote Death of a Salesman in a six-week spurt; it had been stewing in his head for ten years. The script inspired such enthusiasm in its producers and Director Kazan that most of its 80 investors put up the backing without reading it. Some disliked the title and demanded a new one with box office lure, but Miller held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...this twist on an old theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

McLaughlin is president of the Homestake Mining Company and director of three other mining concerns. He received A. M. and Ph. D. degrees from the University in 1915 and 1917 and was professor of Mining Engineering here from 1925 to 1935. From 1930 to 1941, he was chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McLaughlin To Head New Foundation | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

According to Peter E. Pratt, director of Alumni Records, Adams was the only Harvard graduate to reach the age of 100. He was born July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oldest Graduate, Theodore Adams, Succumbs at 103 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Athletic Director Bill Bingham '16 altered the letter award system two weeks ago so that members of the winter track team could win a major H by placing in the Yale meet, but the new policy didn't result in much of a payoff at New Haven Saturday. Only ten men scored for the varsity, which took a 77-32 walloping in Yale's Coxe Cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Track Team Defeats Crimson | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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