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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outweighed the child!"); sang (with Stooge Candy Candido) an appealing duet called The Pussy Cat Song; displayed an entertaining low comedy that is as innocent as it is rare on TV-bending a tall girl backward in his arms, little Durante observes: "When my women are too tall, I fold 'em in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Show | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

This week Flair's 100 staffers got the bad news: with its next (January) issue, Flair will fold. Twenty-four of the employees (including Editor Fleur) will be absorbed into other Cowles publications; the rest will be discharged. The reason for Flair's demise, said Mike Cowles, was that paper was too expensive and hard to get. And if Flair tried to expand, he said, it might have been hit all the harder by possible paper rationing next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Flair | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Equipped with a rousing new hymn called Follow the Fold, the Salvationists lend a homely charm to proceedings that are otherwise notably secular. Frank Loesser's score, though not unusually accomplished, is wonderfully appropriate: it has the blare of the story, the directness of the dances, the brassiness of the locale. One or two love songs would scarcely be missed; one or two of the ditties, such as Adelaide's Lament, have lively tunes. Michael Kidd's dances are clean and sharp, whether burlesquing honky-tonk routines or pantomiming the drama of dice games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...some musical ability (to back up hymn-singing). Those who are unable to pay the $400 all-inclusive fee for a two-year course are taken free of charge, with pocket money included. So far, only two of the institute's 60 alumni have strayed from the evangelistic fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries to Europe | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...arguments for decentralizing the Dean's Office in the manner here proposed are two-fold. First, it would eliminate most of the serious defects . . . which arise from the present Assistant Dean system and the concentration of responsibility for 4300 students in University Hall. Second, it should add significantly to the importance of the Houses and thus contribute to the achievement of the unique kind of Harvard education this report envisages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from the Advising Report | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

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