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...Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were present to give first aid. Otherwise, said Police Chief Kermit Westbay, the alert was highly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: Realistic | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a candy heir who shared the same apartment under an agreement that whoever married first would have his bride move in. Plot: Juarez falls in love with Munsel, Schuler with Mundy. Everyone decides this is a mistake, so they switch affections and engagements. Climax: denials on the part of everyone but Juarez. The whole story, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Home Folks | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Brandeis plays Dartmouth on Saturday in a regularly scheduled game: since the Indians are one of the strongest teams in the East, the Judges want to be fresh to face them. Brandeis also has another game coming up Tuesday. A mixup in its laundry schedule also contributed to the cancellation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brandeis Soccer Game Called Off | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...names are spelled differently because of a mixup in school records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Case of the Missing Major | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...message given to Mossadeq was actually a copy of a message sent at the same time to Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. The mixup resulted from a cable snafu. Embarrassed Washington officials explained that there were "no essential differences" in the two messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Few Degrees Cooler | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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