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...possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri. Her back-talk to the smart aleck, home-town piano teacher who has great hopes for her future, is sparkling. She obviously will move to London for her piano lessons, he will give chase, and they will marry and have fourteen children--but the movie ends too soon for all this. GAVIN R. W. SCOTT

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lease of Life | 1/12/1956 | See Source »

...great advantage on rebounds, 51 percent to 30 percent. Ike Canty was high scorer for the home team with eleven points, and Hastings and Dick Hurley each scored ten. Haughey had seven, Bill Riggs four, Barnett two, and Bowman and Lou Lowenfels one spiece. Anfindson and Hart each sank fourteen for the winners...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Middlebury Defeats Crimson, 50-46 | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

Tufts will bestow on him an honorary doctor of laws degree this Thursday. Fourteen others, including five college or university presidents, will be honored with President Pusey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Pusey To Receive Two Special Degrees | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Eitel, on the industry's black list for not answering a McCarthy-type committee, is despondent, not because he has no job, but rather because he could not seduce a teenage swimmer. The narrator, who has come to Desert D'Or with fourteen thousand dollars won in an unbelievable Air Force poker game, is equally sad because he could not fulfill his sexual needs in Japan. But into their lives come Elena and Lulu, and after some near-pornographic love-making scenes, the two men are both happy again, and better able to enjoy life in Mailer's world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Mailer's Theory of Life: No Possible Happiness Without Sex | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...good manners the role requires. Moreover, he can not really sing. Frank Sinatra, however, who can, has fairly little opportunity, and his Nathan Detroit comes out much more sullen than worried. Only Vivian Blaine is at her best as a nightclub singer who has been engaged to Detroit for fourteen years. Perhaps significantly, she is the sole star of Guys and Dolls who also played her part on Broadway...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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