Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Ted Backe's match with Tiger ace Billy Vogt, a nationally ranked player, was typical of the afternoon's play. Backe could offer little resistance to the swift, alert play of his opponent, going down in speedy 6-1, 6-3 sets...
Saturday's loss to the Tigers followed a second unsuccessful attempt to play Yale. After rain had postponed the match from Wednesday to Friday, a deluge poured down at New Haven as the match was reaching its midway mark. Yale held a 2 to 0 lead, but Crimson players were ahead in three of the other seven matches...
Saturday's tussle was all Harvard. Springfield produced a game crew of physical education students with some knowledge of the game, and though they didn't play very well, they tried hard. One brief flurry of fists and a sackful of penalties was all Springfield could stir up all afternoon...
...Sons. Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster and Mady Christians in a good screen translation of Arthur Miller's prize play (TIME, April...
Some of the critics objected that Olivier had been too cavalier with the text. He had cut the 4½-hour play to 2½ hours, eliminated such roles as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, transposed speeches or even whole scenes as he found necessary. He called the result an "essay on Hamlet" The Manchester Guardian called it "a film which is much more closely knit and, indeed, much more dramatic than any stage Hamlet...