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Word: mc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time, however, Weiland insists the team has shaped up. The blue-line pair of Bob McVey and Bob Owen seems to have solved the defense problem with some outstanding help from an alternate duo of Maurice Balboni and Dick Mc-Laughlin...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Sextet Plays Providence College In Second Try for Win Tonight | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

VENICE OBSERVED (199 pp.)-Mary Mc-Carthy-Reynal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Floating City | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...throated Siobhan (St. Joan) Mc-Kenna, in a blonde wig, played Leslie, the high-voltage heroine, through a sticky Malayan melee of passions. Stalking Maugham's female primeval like a white hunter was Wyler's inquisitive camera, peering through all the flora and fauna into the hurt eyes of the cuckolded husband (John Mills, making his American TV debut), or capturing the guilt written across the sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Familiar Subject | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...more than 3? a composition. In the modern-music field, 10,000 copies mean a rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern composers on disks: Bartok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Victory for Moderns | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Wake Forest, N.C., at the last commencement of Southern Baptist Wake Forest College before it moves to a brand-new campus at Winston-Salem, N.C., retiring Language Professor Hubert Mc-Neill Poteat told the graduating class that "we have in our Baptist ranks more than our share of bigots. Moreover, they have always had, and now have, their scouts and sleuths and spies on this campus, armed with little notebooks in which they diligently scribble comments on the utterances of their professors, that they may presently pass them on to our self-appointed Baptist Popes, cardinals and bishops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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