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...freshman B football team, sparked by the running of Dick Hoffman and Ed Moll and the passing of John Southmayd, easily defeated Lowell House, 26 to 0, yesterday. Lowell House had beaten Leverett and Dudley in its only two House games this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh 'B' Eleven Tops Lowell, 26-0 | 10/20/1951 | See Source »

...Paso, on her way to Spokane, Mob-land's pin-up moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Derring-Do | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...modern hands, there is good reason to be disappointed in the current production of "The Roaring Girl." The major disappointment is the play itself. It is a farce by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, about an old man, his wayward son, and a town character known as Mad Moll, the roaring girl. There are some moments of delightful comedy during the evening, but most of the time the actions seem mere posturing and the words mere wind...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

Silvana Mangano plays an earthy young lady who sings up to cultivate rice for a 40-day period. She falls in with a particularly unscrupulous jewel thief and his current moll. In the course of the film she steals a hot diamond necklace from the moll, muscles out the mill, and finally commits suicide in a highly spectacular manner...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/4/1951 | See Source »

...Minister of Agriculture, about a cut in the sugar ration for bees? "Pray let me know what was the amount previously allotted . . . what is the saving?" When, during Churchill's illness with pneumonia, his doctor prescribed a novel for light reading, he chose Defoe's gamy Moll Flanders, "about which I had heard excellent accounts, but had not found time to test them." Having finished it, he gave it to the doctor "to cheer him up. The treatment was successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Central Figure | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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