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...might ordinarily be counted on to help fill the Stadium just aren't interested in intersectional contests like today's game. They want to see the varsity play some local school, such as Boston University or Boston College. Two months ago only a derisive sneer and a clenched fist would have met that suggestion, for both had been playing big name football teams. But while B.U., now the owner of Braves Field, seems apparently headed for stronger opponents and bigger gates, B.C. has just announced a policy of de-emphasis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Town Boys | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

...game itself began with a seeming lack of propriety, as the Dartmouth line tried to establish Crimson respect. End Joe Ross, a replacement for Popell, caught a fist in the face, as did several other varsity linemen...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Winless Green Encounters Defeat Here At Crimson Stadium's 50th Anniversary | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Torch Song (MGM) should make a lot of Joan Crawford's fans uncomfortable. Joan is miscast as a belligerent musi-comedy star who wears her heart on her fist; the fist is directed mainly at Michael Wilding. Fortunately, the camera decides most of the time that it is more fun to look at Actress Crawford's remarkable legs. Even this is an obvious mistake, for by reducing a performer of Joan's experience and hard-won skills to the cheesecake class, the picture stints her of the human qualities she has developed. Best scene: one in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Janney's new novel, left the Boston Colonial Theater on such a victorious night, exuberant hearties closed in, dragged her off into the darkness. "Help!" screamed Olga. "Help!" Help came: a "huge figure" dressed in armor and wearing a golden cross. With stunning blows "from [his] mighty mailed fist" the apparition mowed down the Harvard line like a visitation from Yale. Olga scuttled to safety-and far away, "in the Early Gothic Room of the Cloisters in the northern tip of Manhattan," a stone statue of the Madonna broke into "a slow smile that became almost laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More & More Miraculous | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...outlying communities of U.S. oilmen and construction-camp workers share in the boom through big salaries and subsidized living costs. They work hard, live quietly in their U.S.-provisioned company towns, and save money hand-over-fist between conservative splurges outside. Plenty of hard work gets done in Caracas, too. Explains one American: "This was never a place to play; it's a place to bear down and make dough." But Caracas is blooming fast as a national show window, and the capital crowd, as might be expected, includes far & away the flashiest of Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Busy Bs | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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