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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Songstress Jane Pickens arrived at a Denver television studio to begin a telethon appeal for donations to the National Cerebral Palsy Fund. After 14 hours on the air, with the fund $158,000 richer, Singer Pickens flew back to Manhattan for her regular TV show. Then she headed west again to Phoenix, where she raised another $60,000. bringing her personal fund-raising campaign in the past year to a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 11, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Brower, an authority on both Greek and English literature, will teach Humanities courses in the General Education program as well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reuben Brower Made Professor of English | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

Married. Mary Jane Soong, 23, Wellesley-educated daughter of Financier T. V. Soong, onetime (1945-47) Premier of Nationalist China, and niece of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Charles K. Eu, 27, Columbia University student; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...dorms also named the following as social chairmen: Barnard, Joan Huth '55; Bertram, Mollie Storrs '55; Briggs, Clem Kuhlman '55; Cabot, Dale Dorman '55; Holmes, Jane Flanders '55; and Moors, Glorian Devereux...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six 'Cliffe Dorms Elect Presidents | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

Small Town Girl (MGM) is a Technicolored trifle about a playboy (Farley Granger) who is jailed for speeding through a small town. By Hollywood justice, he finds himself not only in the clutches of the law but also in the arms of the judge's pretty daughter (Jane Powell). She smuggles fried chicken and mince pie into his cell, regales him by singing Small Towns Are Smile Towns, and sneaks him out of jail for a night on New York town. This does not please the playboy's fiancee, Dancing Star Ann Miller. By the fadeout the playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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