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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 40 years ago, when Eleonora Duse was making her long faces and Weber and Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. "If you don't know Billings and Stover," said the notice, "this will introduce them." But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billings and Stover: Leeches, Bleaches, and Drugs | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

Opening day crowds of 831,783 yesterday paid their way in to see the ten home inaugurals, thereby establishing a new first day record by surpassing the 1931 mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNutt Pitches No-Hitter as Deacons Trounce Adams 2-0 | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

...Naked City. The late Mark Hellinger's big, bright portrait of New York, with Barry Fitzgerald and the Homicide Squad in the foreground (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Something Should Happen." His father was a Congregational minister in upstate New York, his mother was a friend of Mark Twain (she wrote his funeral elegy) and one of the first women ordained in the Congregational Church. A forceful and free-thinking person (she once sincerely assured her congregation "that if they could find a spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enormous Trifle | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...thou shalt mark each one well; and if some goat doth prance and stomp and beat upon the ground with his hoof, heed...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

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