Word: grips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unique Broadway team. Last season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...
Cambridge merchants will not be asked to join in the plan in the near future, Bornstein disclosed. He reasoned that Cambridge business has a firmer grip on student trade than Boston does, and that since many of the participating colleges are in Boston, the committee will work on selling the program to Boston first. Wheaton College in Attleboro, however, has made so much progress that the Wheaton girls may be the first to enjoy the program, he said...
...Yard leagues, Thayer Middle retained its grip on first place in the American with a win yesterday, and in the National, Straus' protest for a replay with Matthews North was granted by the Freshman Athletic Committee...
...young girls about trees and flowers, although technically, I suppose, it is quite good; and "Narcissus," because it is too hard to follow. The good ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid, and she has created an image toward the end that is in itself one of the finest bits of writing to appear since the war in Cambridge's undergraduate literary magazines...
...Hurry. But China's chief worry last week was her military future, on which everything, including her economy, depended. That was worse than dim (see FOREIGN NEWS). Communist forces had overrun just about all of northeast China, were extending a throttling grip on the whole nation...