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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side (and has become a U.S. citizen). Gone are the days of which he complains, "I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more." He still commands the biggest box office of any living concert musician, but is sticking to his resolve to perform only six months of the year and not more than twice a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Affair | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Theater will present its inaugural five plays over a ten-week period. Beside "Road to Rome" which will benefit the Radcliffe Fund, they will perform George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," "Andre Obey's "Noah," George Kelly's "Showoff," and "Sunrise in My Pocket," a new play by Edwin Justus Mayor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Fund Is Still $200,000 Short; Copley Radcliffe Night Opens Drive | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Following the Cayugan contest, Army, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Princeton and Brown will perform for Stadium crowds before the team journeys to New Haven to meet Yale November 19. The schedule: Sept. 24 Stanford at Pale Alto Oct. 1 Columbia at New York Oct. 6 Cornell Oct. 15 Army Oct. 22 Dartmouth Oct. 29 Holy Cross Nov. 5 Princeton Nov. 12 Brown Nov. 19 Yale at New Haven

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College's Toughest Grid Schedule Slated for '48 | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper to fly to Europe and be married there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Stamp of Judaism | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Last week many influential Israelis were demanding civil marriage for Israel, which now operates under a rule taken over from the British, who decided that only rabbis could perform Jewish marriages in Palestine. Israel's Minister of Religion, aged (72), Judah L. Fishman, set out the counter-demands of the religious groups: enforcement of the Sabbath, adoption of biblical law as the basis for Israel's legal system, and government observance of dietary laws. Said he: "I don't expect to go looking into the cook pots of all the housewives of Israel, but state institutions should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Stamp of Judaism | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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