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"We have been a precision team in our past games," Coach Henry Lamar commented. "Our offense was shackled by penalties and fumbles--and we are not a fumbling team."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fourth Period Tallies Give Tigers 10-0 Victory Over Yardling Team | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

She played the first couple of numbers straight-the melody always there, easy and obvious. Then she leered from between her big rhinestone earrings and let the crowd know that she was about to take off. She basted Lazy River with a wild boogie beat. Her knees bounced up and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Wild but Polished | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

The Brahms presents technical difficulties comparable to the Berlioz, and musical problems that are much deeper. But the orchestra had solved most of the technical problems, and conductor Attilio Poto showed not only his usual control and precision, but also an interpretation which was neither unusual nor detailed, but was...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

As the tumult and the shouting and the innumerable suits and countersuits in the law courts waned, so did Marie Stopes's sense of scientific precision. She got a few weird ideas about how the marriage bed should be placed (always in a north-south direction, "in tune with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Early Crusader | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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