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...Combined Charities Committee has restored Salzburg Seminar and the Red Feather to its list of charities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity Drive to Return Seminar To 1955 Aid List | 12/3/1954 | See Source »

...dazed administration, a succession of Old Guard Republicans had moved, like a procession of pelicans, into the governor's chair, led by Arthur James, whose conservatism extended to his high-button shoes. In 1946 it came the turn of James Duff, a bristle-thatched bird of another feather. Midway in his term, Duff led a coup d'état against Boss Joe Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. In 1950, what was left of Pennsylvania's Republican power was picked up by a group of county leaders called the Blue Bell Boys (because they held strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Voter's Farmer | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Faculty and students in the University have contributed more than $24,000 this fall to the Red Feather campaign, James R. Reynolds '23, Cambridge Community Chest Chairman, announced yesterday. This is 68 percent of the drive's goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feather Gets $24,000 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...never seen so many women in my life," grumbled a veteran Boston Garden ticket taker as he watched a mass of sequinned bonnets and pink corsages seething through the entrance gates. Pushing a long blue feather out of his eye, he gazed at a red and white "Liberace" placard plastered over the announcement for the previous night's Bruins-Rangers game. "They sure do go for him, don't they," he mused...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Liberace and Old Lace | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...skillfully dubbed in. LeVern Hutcherson does the singing for Actor Belafonte, and does it handsomely. Belafonte seems a rather Sunday-go-to-meetin' type to attract a Carmen, but he makes the big scenes convincing. Pearl Bailey, through the second half of the film, lolls around superbly under feather boas, dragging her weight in rhinestones and "livin' off de fatheads of de land." And in one scene, using her own inimitable vocal cords, she belts out the Chanson Boheme as they never heard it in old Bohemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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