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...remembered, My Sister Eileen is till a very funny play. The comic repliques of the 1940 hit dominate the new production, but Wonderful Town integrates script and melody with great success. Paced by George Abbott's direction, the show completely skirts tedium and glides from dialogue to song without quash of gears on diminished quality. The further assets of a choice east headed by Rosalind Russell and handsome settings by Raonl Pene du Bois make Wonderful Town a seek and thoroughly delight ful show...
...Orleans Times-Picayune (and some 170 other U.S. dailies). Even if the verdict against the Times-Picayune is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, Roberts expects to fight the Star's case right up to the top. Said he: "There will be no effort ... to quash or delay the antitrust indictment...
...death. Yalies gathered firearms of every sort, congregated in two buildings, and dug in for a sizable siege. Furious townspeople rolled three cannon onto the Green, facing the buildings. President Wooley frustrated students not to sheet until fired upon, but then to shoot accurately. However, police managed to quash the oncoming slaughter...
...announcing his finding, Dowd dismissed the petition of the Sage Co. that had sought to quash the action of the A.B.C. in authorizing the license to Moriarty last November. The Sage Co. contends it had gained the necessary license from the Cambridge Liquor License Commission...
...Communists. In an hour-long speech, North Korean Premier Kim said that his country "does not consider it dishonorable to conclude an armistice . . . after fighting against 19 powers for three years," and added that the war should end with "neither victor nor vanquished." But next day, as if to quash such defeatist talk, the Peking radio declared that "we must exert every effort" for victory, and promised that North Koreans and Chinese together would "smash the schemes of the American aggressors," who are really only "paper tigers...