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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Icetime of 1948 (produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur M. Wirtz) could almost be reviewed with a pair of ditto marks. The sixth of the Center Theater's chronically successful ice shows, it displays the same skill as the other five, the same lavishness, and, eventually, the same monotony. By now, obviously, a really new skating act is as hard to find as a new gambit at chess. But by cheating a little here & there, Icetime of 1948 has come up with some extra fun. Entering on skates, which he promptly kicks off, Joe Jackson Jr. goes into the hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...House of Commons, M.P.s wept brotherly tears over the plight of Britain's free-enterprise system. "England is occupied country," said Social Crediter Ernest George Hansell. "A foreign way of life is there." Tory Member Lawrence Wilton Skey put in ditto marks and added: "We must now be ready ... to give them [by allowing immigration] the freedom which they will be denied at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Mourners' Bench | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Ditto. In Uniontown, Pa., sisters Frances and Julia Nypaver married brothers Paul and Martin Dvorchak the same day, one year later had babies on the same day, nine years later again had children on the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist and believes in one God, libido, the sexual urge, as the dominant force in human existence. He regards the school of Jung as pantheistic heretics (they believe that libido includes other drives besides sex); ditto for the school of Adler (which invented the inferiority complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The True Freudians | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Revised copy of School Regs. . . . Corley: the telephone number of the best decorated bank in Cambridge (especially the rear windows). . . . "Feather Merchant" Cassell: A set of life rafts in case of unseasonal heavy rains in the Boston area--size 14. . .. AND, to SINBAD: anything he dam well wants! . . . ditto the rest of you guys--this is thirty from...

Author: By Ens. GUY Osborne, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/25/1944 | See Source »

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