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...Exotic food has laid the President low before: during last summer's Republican Convention in Chicago, he ate a Chinese dinner, spent the next two days groaning in bed while his frantic aides, fearful of upsetting the delicate balance of convention psychology, stalled press and politicos with excuses about important conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Price of Spice | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...space. This would mean a good deal less handling of the paper volumes, and hence a greater probability that they would survive the biannual crush of students. And if only those courses with enrollments of over a hundred could win a place on the board, fewer students would spend frantic hours searching for exams that have been either stolen or tattered beyond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Posting Examinations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

...star of her own CBS-TV show, Private Secretary, "and this is the toughest thing I've ever done." After Actress Sothern had made seven Maisie movies and broadcast 78 Maisie radio programs, she was so tired of the dumb-blonde character that "the very name made me frantic." .Several months ago someone handed her a TV script for Private Secretary, and Ann decided it was just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sympathetic Susie | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Minneapolis Lakers' 20 point lead was enough to hold off a frantic Knicker-bocker rally for a 91 to 84 victory last night and give the Lakers their fourth national basketball championship in the past five years. The Knicks, trying mightily, whipped the New York crowd into a frenzy by pulling to one point at 85 to 84 with 35 seconds left to play. . . . Ernie Lombardi, former National League batting champion, is reported to be recovering from his suicide attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 4/11/1953 | See Source »

...simple love scenes, garrulous crowd scenes, smoky theatre scenes, one feels the presence of real people, moved by passions and dreams that glide them away from their grimy, frantic day-to-day struggles. And from the first panorama of a street sideshow to the last shot of Baptiste crying for Garrance as he shoves his way through a crowd of masked revellers, one exists with them in the paradise-hell of this motion picture...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Les Enfants de Paradis | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

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