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...certainly the time to heap praises on the team for coming through Saturday and ending the Seven Year Itch. The Yale victory in itself deserves a holiday; that it is coincident with Thanksgiving is all the more appropriate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 and 20 Drumsticks | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

...bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Like a Brick. As soon as the news got back to Gold Bridge, a tiny town on the Bridge River, prospectors for miles around got the itch. Some were gnarled veterans of the Gold Rush. Some were tenderfeet. Only one had a Geiger counter, and none knew anything about radioactive ores. That did not stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Moose Pasture | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...life in the jungle. When he had completed his war chores (he became chief scout to Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, who has written a foreword for this book), he slipped back into the jungle for more of the kind of adventures that would make a Hemingway hero itch with envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Safari Without Hemingway | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School on Wheels | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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