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...production, it deliberately wallows in confusion, tries to thrive on disaster, and insists on being bosom friends with an audience that barely vouchsafes it a nod. Playwright-Director-Actor-Master of Ceremonies Crabtree takes potshots at latecomers while offering pointers on the play; the stage manager struggles with the prompt book while actors add inserts to injury; the lights blow a fuse; an actress throws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Story for a Sunday Evening (by | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Secretary of Navy Matthews and Major General Orvil Anderson suffered prompt reprimands when they advocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME News Quiz | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...prompt action in Korea has helped remove the stigma of futility from the U.N. Even if the actual armed intervention was largely American, the spiritual and propaganda value of the Security Council was enormous. But that authorization was is much still to be done if the apparent upswing in the fortunes of the U. N. is to continue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Day | 10/24/1950 | See Source »

...Board--Compulsory meeting this afternoon at 4. Compulsory party tomorrow night at 7. Be prompt! --Notice from the Yale Daily News, October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/18/1950 | See Source »

...Special units within each of the member nations' armed forces "to be specially trained and equipped and continuously maintained in readiness for prompt service on behalf of the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Of Blood & Ink | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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