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This weekend Smith's Junior Prom starts off with a Dinner Dance at Hotel Northampton from 7 p.m. till midnight on Friday. The deadline for both Friday and Saturday nights will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Prom Hoopla Features Dancing, Debating, Parties | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...disturbing the world far more profoundly than the reaction of Soviet Communism. Two hundred years ago, only a few individuals could achieve material comfort. After the industrial revolution, of a few nations could achieve it. But the techniques of mass production unleashed by the Americans 40 years ago prom ise comfort for all-and the promise is an honest one, technically redeemable. This promise runs through the world (especially through Asia) like a Pied Piper, leading men to drop ancient ways of life and follow it. But the American is not on the ground to organize the energy released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GIANT IN A SNARE | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Young "Gundy" was no recluse, but was anything but a social success. He never drank or smoked, and turned down dance invitations from Smith girls. About the closest he came to his fellow students was playing his piano while they learned to waltz for the Junior Prom. Gundelfinger, of course, never attended the prom...

Author: By N. J. C., | Title: Pamphleteer George Gundelfinger Is Soiled Galahad of Yale Morals | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...College Prom (Elliot Lawrence and Orchestra; Decca). Strictly for rolling the rug back. Includes such favorites as I Can't Get Started, East of the Sun, Deep Purple, etc., done up in a more danceable than distinguished style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...educators (it pays for itself in advertising); Baby Care Manual (circ. 360,000), a quarterly distributed free to hospitals to give to new mothers; Your New Baby (circ. 400,000), another quarterly bought by diaper services and department stores for distribution to new mothers; Senior Prom (circ. 600,000), a 25? monthly for teen-age girls; and Varsity (circ. 250,000), a 25? bimonthly for high-school and college boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Parents' New Child | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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