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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first offered creative opportunity to such men as Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale," and Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The Club's production of "The Ascent of FL," early in the decade, is still a topic of conversation in the theater world...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

Said Boysen: "I went on the field to pat Jackie Robinson on the back. Suddenly I got hit from behind. I fell down . . . I saw Durocher kick me in the stomach . . . Then the fans took me outside near a hot-dog stand when I passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out In Center-Field | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Purely Coincidental. To confirmed Blondie fans, Mr. & Mrs. Dagwood Bumstead, their son Alexander ("Baby Dumpling"), their daughter Cookie, their dog Daisy and her puppies are as real as the folks next door. When Cookie was "born," 431,275 readers suggested names for her. If Blondie fries an egg in a new-type pan, letters flood in from readers who want to know where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blondie's Father | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Like Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blondie's Father | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners. At the piano in the sorority parlor, he can play Beethoven or boogie, but he prefers the works of Belvedere. His biggest, and perhaps funniest, moment comes at the Freshman-Sophomore track-meet when he lays aside his dog-eared book, rolls his well-creased trousers above his knobbly knees and stalks out on the field to win the pole vault and a freshman victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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