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...greatest disappointment of the issue is its cartoons. Frederick Gwynne, who can usually be counted upon to liven things up, has fallen short. His one Charles Adams-type contribution fails to put across a rather clever idea, an unusual failing for Gwynne. The others are equally poor...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

Barmairds, flappers and punch brewed in a bathtub will liven the scene at the Radcliffe '51-'52 Halfway Hop in Agassiz at 8.30 p.m. tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of the Day's News | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

...while the streets of Paris were barricaded by revolutionists, the young composer-organist got married. His actress-wife tried to liven him up a bit, teach him dancing, take him to the theater. But, writes Biographer Demuth, "Franck slept through all the performances, remarking that they were a waste of time otherwise." His tastes led more in the direction of the opera bouffe "and he delighted in Offenbach because he said that the operas made him laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Modulator | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Small groups of Austrian students descended on the dining halls of Kirkland, Eliot, Winthrop, Lowell, and Dunster last evening to liven up the House meals with their native singing and yodeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Austrian Tourists Yodel for Diners | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

With prospective fortunes to liven interest (a gas-company worker once took a flutter for 10? and won $295,180), crowds at the games dwarf the crowds that turn out for U.S. sport events. When Scotland played (and beat) England two months ago, a throng of 150,000 crammed London's Wembley Stadium to see it done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unsold in U.S.A. | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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