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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missing Pages. Expanded radio and TV coverage could only skim along the peaks of the news, leaving unchronicled, among other things, the inside-page happenings of the community. Many a forlorn Manhattan miss lost the opportunity to exhibit her face, or at least the fact of her engagement or marriage, to her neighbors. Many an executive, promoted as the New Year approached, made the ascent unnoticed. For want of want ads, the unemployed lost job opportunities, apartments stayed unrented, dogs stayed lost. Men were convicted or acquitted without public attention, the scores of sports events went unreported, Christmas charities were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Haulers' Christmas | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...will not be like Christmas in Oshkosh, Wis.: "I'll miss the soft, new snow and the ice skating, and most of all the all-day family reunions, and the big, brightly lighted Christmas tree that always touched our living-room ceiling, and the family singing before the fireplace, and the windows of the neighborhood with all the colored lights." Some day Harold Baar will spend Christmas with his family again. "But," he says, "there's still a lot to do in Culion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANS ABROAD: Three Kings of Orient | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Hingle (as J.B.), Raymond Massey as Mr. Zuss (the balloon salesman who plays God), Nan Martin as J.B.'s wife, and Christopher Plummer as Nickels (the popcorn vendor who portrays Satan) are all excellent. Boris Aronson's set is magnificent; Miss Ballard's costumes catch the proper blend of the gaudy and grotesque; David Amram's music and Tharon Musser's lighting lend almost surrealistic overtones to the drama. And Kazan ringmasters his menagerie with the genius which has earned him his reputation...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: J.B. | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

...main speakers at the seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language Instructors To Meet at Columbia | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...plagued dramatists since time immemorial," declared Walter B. Farnham '59, president of the Opera Guild. After seeing the projected image of the Drama Center, James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, added, "We seniors are sick over the fact that we have to graduate and miss this theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers Like Design For Proposed Theatre | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

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