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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Eddie Fisher, Pat O'Brien, Imogene Coca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...contrast with this intelligent treatment of the feebleminded is Robert Fisher's stale catalogue of bullfight lore. Fisher's use of a banal subject--the discovery of dedication, and death, in a bullfight--would be bad enough if the story were well-handled. But the author seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 3/14/1956 | See Source »

Morrison pinned Ed Fisher of Rutgers in 1:33 of the first round for the quickest time of the tournament. In the quarter finals and semi-finals Morrison went into an overtime and even then the matches had to be decided by the referee's decision. Bill Oberly of Penn State downed Morrison 5 to 3 in the finals with all Lehigh cheering for Morrison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Wins Intercollegiates | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...Quakers retaliated by taking the next four weights by decision. Ken Fisher topped Captain Phil Burnaman; Steve Friedberg over Dick Hook; Jay Goldberg over Bob Gilmor; and Ted Robb over Ed Raymond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Defeat Winless Quakers By One Pin, 16-12 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Paul Kelley led the scoring with two second period goals which came on assists from Dave Vietz and Dick Fischer. Captain George Higginbottom and Fischer both tallied in the first period; Fisher caged a pass from Vietz at 5:53, and Higginbottom scored unassisted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Six Beats Malden Catholic, 5-3 | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

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