Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Drama Critics Circle met last week and managed, with little dissent, to pick its favorites of the season. The best U.S. play: Death of a Salesman, a deeply human story of a typical American who so craves success that he is fatally crushed by failure (TIME, Feb. 21). The best foreign play: The Madwoman of Chaillot, an enchanting fantasy about a wacky countess who, Pied Piper-like, rids Paris of its human rats (TIME, Jan. 10). The best musical: South Pacific, a sort of child of Madame Butterfly by Mister Roberts, brilliantly produced with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Like his staff, Schwab puts in an 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. day, five days a week, sometimes takes work home to his apartment on Fifth Avenue or his country home in Westchester County. He smokes and drinks only occasionally, has no hobbies ("I play a little golf but not very well"), and seldom goes out evenings. He has a simple method for keeping his razor-sharp mind honed: "I just like to work...
Because of a steady downpour Saturday afternoon the freshman tennis team was unable to play its scheduled match against Amherst...
...brilliant 35 yard penalty kick with two minutes left to play by Princeton's John Cotter gave the visiting Tiger rugby squad the three points it needed to tie up the game and resulted in the second consecutive deadlock of the 1949 Harvard Princeton series. This time the final score was 3 to 3. In Bermuda it had been...
Harvard's lone touch (worth three points) came after a protracted second half scuffle in the end zone which ended as giant Crimson forward Eddie Davis fell on the ball for the score. Davis's chief assistant on the scoring play was Al Green, the man who had kicked the ball into the end zone...