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...Duel in the Sun (1947), $11.3 million

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Money | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Fanny Kelly was another lady who got a sharp comeuppance when she crossed swords with the monster. "Being offended" with him, she said: "You know, my Lord, I can act men's parts. I have a great mind to put on breeches and demand satisfaction [i.e., fight a duel with you]." To which his lordship replied coarsely: "Then, Miss Kelly, I should be very happy to pull off mine and give you satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: TheMost Amiable Monster | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Crimson's Larry Flaxman and Newport's Dick kazmaler, former Princeton all-American football player and Harvard B-School graduate, staged a close duel for scoring honors. Kazmaler scored 23 points, while Flaxman totaled 20, half of them from the foul line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Five Beats Newport, 66-58 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...next ten minutes and six sequences of the game were a repeat of the first period defensive duel until Princeton wingback Bill Agnew took a deep reverse hand-off on his 20 and was buried under an avalanche of snowy-jersied Crimson tacklers, who jarred loose the ball so that Moigs could recover on the eight...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Varsity Eleven Tops Tigers, 14-9 As Line Checks Princeton Attack | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Comden and Adolph Green) was bound to become a musical in time-and doubtless in time for Mary Martin to play Peter. She looks as boyish as can be expected of any grownup of the opposite sex. She is hard to beat at singing, she can dance, she can duel with Captain Hook; and when she flies through the air, she races and soars and dips like some Peter Pan-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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