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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dramatic Club was founded in 1908 for the purpose of presenting new plays written here by students. Even with a student body the size of the University's, it was, of course, impossible to find one or two original plays each year that were always worthy of production. Those play's which did seem of promise, but were unsuitable for local performance, were given a "reading" by the HDC, after ample rehearsals. Eventually, the Club began to present outstanding foreign plays which were being ignored by the Belascos and the Frohmans on Broadway. Since 1919, no undergraduate plays have been...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...fact that the schedule boosts his route from the twelve cities he now serves to 54. Slick's route begins in Los Angeles, runs through Texas to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and on to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Said he: "We will expand as we find it necessary. We're not going to go hogwild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rich Cargo | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

After some months of buildup, the portents had become so numerous and alarming that the Air Force began gathering all the data it could find on each report of "unidentified aerial phenomena" such as flying discs, space ships from Mars and things that go whiz in the air. Last week the National Military Establishment issued a statement on Project Saucer. Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their stories. But the Air Force's scientists found no convincing evidence that mysterious aircraft (from Mars, or even from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Lawyer-Detective Perry Mason wasn't looking for all the trouble he got. He was just trying to find the hit & run driver who had put his client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry Mason he was headed for plenty of trouble. Before The Case of the Cautious Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes Who Shoot Straight | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...took the Rugby Club two full games and half of another to find a combination that would beat Princeton. They finally hit upon it in the second half of Saturday's contest in New Jersey, when the team came up with two tries to beat the Tigers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Top Princeton | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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