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In the New Haven Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight, the Crimson will have many opportunities for knocking the props from beneath Yale's chances for the Quad League championship, unless the Bulldog hits the ice in a gruffer mood than it did last Saturday.

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Hockey Team Needs Only Few Breaks To Knock Props From Under Bulldogs | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

Two For The Show (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey). Tap-happy and tuneful, Two For The Show popped open like a bottle of champagne with a skit on The Man Who Came To Dinner. From then on an ebullient cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Hoover had a whiz of a plot. Its characters were mostly people in the swarming ruck of New York City: an elevator mechanic, a telegraph office clerk, a baker, a telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: G-Whiz | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Dick Maney's personality stands forth in the rackety, sulfurous, epithet-crawling style, "as distinctive as the Dietrich limbs," of his press stories. But it is his walking & talking personality that has put Maney on top. He scorns the usual props: high-pressuring, dancing attendance on people, buttering his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Portrait of a Press Agent | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Depression I finally knocked the props from under Mr. Eaton, washed away his industrial controls. By 1932 he was left with little except his Cleveland securities house, Otis & Co. But Mr. Eaton still rode to hounds. And last week he rode off again to the financial wars.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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