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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tanglewood, Edinburg, the various Stratfords, and other sites of art festivals throughout the world have nothing on Cambridge this summer. For within the walls of Harvard University, operating "in cooperation with the Summer School," there will presently arise a new festival devoted not to the works of one playwright or composer but to a long neglected style of dramatic production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Drama Festival Opens Thursday in Sanders | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Blood Tie. In Edinburg, Texas, Pedro Martinez was excused from jury duty after he told the assistant district attorney why he would not be willing to vote for the death penalty: "Jose [the defendant] is my cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Teetotaler. In Edinburg, Texas, arrested for possessing ten marijuana cigarettes, Rosendo Ureste, 33, expressed surprise: "Other people get drunk and don't go to jail, and I never drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Stored in a Liverpool warehouse, until she can figure out what to do with it: a 447-lb. bale of raw cotton wrapped in red plaid, a gift to Princess Elizabeth from the cotton farmers of Edinburg, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Edinburg, Texas, touring Soprano Margaret Truman admitted that she was not yet sure what her income tax would amount to. Asked if it was true that she once studied a withholding statement and muttered: "That man Truman," she replied: "No, I think I said: 'That man [Secretary of the Treasury] Snyderi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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