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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sundays in the country Rank drives five miles to the Reigate Methodist Church (in wartime he cycled to save petrol) to teach his Sunday-school class. The Reverend J. Eric Dixon does not consider Arthur an unmixed blessing. "The press," he snorts, "is always down here badgering us. That's why it's such a bad Sunday school." But the children climb all over the teacher. Chirped little Peter Robinson: "He's a real smasher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: King Arthur & Co. | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, as Mrs. Tancred; J. Bradley Cuming 3rd '46 as Jerry Devine; Robert Lubchansky '48 as Charlie Bentham; Robert L. Wechsler '49 as an irregular mobilizer; Palmer Dixon '50 and Robert Claflin '50 as two irregulars; Dixon as a coal block vender; Arthur S. Bunker, Jr. '49 as a sewing machine man and a furniture removal man; Jay Levine '50 as a furniture removal man; Anna A. Prince, Radcliffe '48 and Lorn Slocombe as neighbors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC 'Juno' Hits Boards of Pudding Club Tonight as Five Day Run Opens | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

...decade ago, as a fresh-from-college reporter on the Greenville Piedmont, Ashmore got a big hand in the Carolinas by touring "the Deep North" to do a series on Tobacco Roads above the Mason-Dixon line. He took charge of the News's editorial page after serving as an infantry lieutenant colonel in Europe. His campaigns (for two-party politics, racial and religious tolerance, votes for Negroes, higher pay for teachers) have established him as neither a Yankee-lover nor a deep-dyed Southerner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Southerner by Inclination | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...presidency was awarded to Theodore P. Allegretti '47 yesterday afternoon in the Club's annual election of officers. Rounding out the executive board were Palmer Dixon '50, Robert C. Kingston '48, and Robert E. Miller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Members Choose Allegretti as President, Fill Executive Board | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

...offender, Laborite James Dixon Murray, an ex-miner, hastily crammed orange and peelings into his pocket. But Boothby's motive was not to shame a Laborite. He is allergic to oranges: "I simply can't stand the smell of the things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Should Not Peel an Orange | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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