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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity lineup will be the same at the top six singles positions, except, possibly, at fourth singles if Ben Heckscher is able to play. Rounding out the top ten will be Jim Cameron, Ned Weld, Pete Krogh and Laurie Pratt. The top two doubles combinations will be Junta-Sears and Gianetti-Gottlieb, but the bottom three team will not be decided definitely until this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Squad Defeats B.U. By 9-0 Score | 4/20/1957 | See Source »

...gloomy view of the fate which brings the pair together, O'Neill injected a good deal of power into the staggering plot. In a musical, however, you just don't explore the possibility of portraying the wickedness offered in the girl's career; you don't use fate except as a rhyme in a song; and above all you aren't gloomy. So all Abbott retains of the original is the elementary boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl structure; and that just isn't enough to drive the musical...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: New Girl in Town | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

...practice, of course, the Corporation comprises its ideals by allowing the Atlantic Refining Company to broadcast football games. There seems to be little difference, by their reasoning, between Harvard's "keeping your car on the go;" and her wishing everybody used Dial soap: except that the broadcasts were begun long ago, before the rule was adopted, in response to wide alumni interest in the games. But certainly the University has in the past ignored alumni interest and feels that undergraduate sentiment is almost as important a factor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creeping Commercialism | 4/18/1957 | See Source »

...whole, the production suffers from an absence of humor and intensity, and adds little worthwhile to Yeats except a chance to see and hear...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Countess Cathleen | 4/18/1957 | See Source »

...officer of the Screen Writers' Guild. The academy had asked Lasky to pick up Rich's Oscar after someone claiming he was Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought a "five-or six-page treatment" of the story. Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Case of the Missing Scripter | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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