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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point out a typographical error in your story on Larry Adler, quoting my explanation of how to play the harmonica? Your text read: "All you have to do is move the left framiscle on the portisduble from hardistack with the muscles, using a frammisanic embouchure . . ." This should have read "right framiscle on the portisduble from pardistack with the muscles." I hope that aspiring harmonica players have not been attempting an impossible technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15 years than in the entire 122 that went before. At one Monrovia polling place last week, an election official wore a red. white and blue paper eyeshade with the motto: "Don't gamble, play it safe, vote Tubman." The country's answer at week's end: more than 355,000 votes and a fourth term for Tubman, only 41 votes for his self-sacrificing opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Freshmen Play Elis...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Baseball Varsity to Meet B.U. Today, Yale Tomorrow | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

Bowditch, who played beautifully against Yale on Wednesday, could be the big surprise of the tournament if he can keep up his fine play. Vinton, who reached the semi-finals in the singles last year, will not play doubles, and Crimson coach Jack Barnaby has not yet decided who will pair with Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Enter NE Tourney | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

While waiting for the squirrel's next leap, the stranger becomes involved in a moralistic debate with the apartment denizens. He claims he always does what he likes; yet as the play develops, he emerges as the altruist responsible for the welfare of all living things. The squabbling and moody apartment dwellers serve as a foil to his Christianity. When through the (perhaps) jealousy, or pique, of one of them, the squirrel plunges to his death, the Christian exits to bury his prey, and the denizens resume their static gaze heavenward, half expecting to see a new squirrel take...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: New Theatre Workshop | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

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