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...lyricism or wit. By dramatizing Rostand's offstage action and breaking each scene into bits small enough for the camera to digest, he has given the picture unusual mobility for an adaptation from the stage. Among the additions: a blade-by-blade filming of Cyrano's duel with the cutthroats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Rain, football's great leveller, turned the expected Johnny Clayton-Stu Tisdale passing duel into a water fight Saturday, and helped underdog Dartmouth beat Yale, 7 to 0, in the Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain, Wet Field Important In Dartmouth Win Over Eli | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

...Possible Duel...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Purple Enters Stadium as Two Touchdown Favorite | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

Today's game may well develop into a passing duel between Maloy and the Crimson's Carroll Lowenstein. While the Crusaders have been impressive offensively, their defense has been porous. He Eddie Anderson's team has yielded 125 points in tying Dartmouth, beating Brown, and losing on successive weekends to Colgate, Syracuse, and Yale...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Purple Enters Stadium as Two Touchdown Favorite | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

...Princess Cristina Belgiojoso's, that spring of 1837, had been one of the unmistakable successes of the Paris season. The cream of society had crowded the princess' salon to hear famed Franz Liszt outthunder another darling of the day, suave Sigismond Thalberg. If she could enlarge the duel to a multiple piano exhibition, the princess thought, perhaps a goodly sum could be raised for the benefit of her needy Italian compatriots in Paris. So six of the most famous pianists of the day were asked to compose variations on a theme from Bellini's I Puritani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Six-Layer Cake | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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