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Hundreds of Yard residents started the riot when calls of "Rinechart" sounded around 11 p.m. The ended up in a maelstrom at Radcliffe, and disbanded slowly when several police cars arrived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman 'Rinechart' Rioters Will Escape With Reprimand | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

...orders it thoroughly revamped for the reception. Tracy's 20-year-old cutaway splits a seam. A lovers' quarrel threatens briefly to end the whole show. The wedding rehearsal turns into bedlam. Then comes the ceremony itself and the ultimate chaos-the reception. Tossed about in a maelstrom of thirsty guests and burdened with such undignified chores as untangling traffic jams out front, Tracy cannot find his daughter to say goodbye before she rushes off on her honeymoon. Finally he is alone and at peace with the debris and the bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Educational Maelstrom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consider Human Side, Finley Asks Teachers' Forum | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...increased enrollment in colleges today creates competition among students for the attraction of the teachers, Finley said. Few students, he added, are able to fight their way out of this "competitive maelstrom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consider Human Side, Finley Asks Teachers' Forum | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Museum and the Museum of Modern Art have long been benevolent godfathers to contemporary painting. In recent years Manhattan's mighty Metropolitan Museum has, by mutual agreement, left the job largely up to them. But last week the Met revealed that it had decided to plunge into the maelstrom of contemporary U.S. art by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mellowing Met | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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