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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formed by the Austrian Students Association, the group is comprised of singers, yodelers, and folk-dancers who are paying for their educational trip through North America by their entertainment ability. Members of the group will give readings of German poetry at Fogg Museum at 4:30 p.m., and the entire organisation will put on a show in Rindge Tech auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Austrian Students, Touring U.S., Entertain Here Today | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...last major U.S. railroads to dieselize, it was finally retiring steam locomotives at a fast clip and stepping up its purchase of diesel-electric equipment. Last week it took its biggest step yet: it ordered 226 locomotives, costing some $38 million, from six manufacturers.* The new order will give Pennsy the largest number of diesel locomotives (820) of any U.S. railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Out Steam | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography, and endless clips from newsreel racing shots give it a sort of juvenile vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns to the favored Firbank theme of palace love; but its fluffy, frail ingredients, languidly mixed and half-heartedly baked, only give it the hurt look of a tortured meringue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Perfect Dear | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...role of the "Critic" and friend of the acting couple, Jerry Kilty does not give his usual assured performance and is often unconvincing as the worldly and aged roue. After a few more performances, however, he should have the part better in hand...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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