Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the rain and the wind, the varsity golf team rose to the occasion, downing Rutgers yesterday at New Brunswick, 6 to 1, in its first match of the season...
Talk to Me Like The Rain is a subtler, more lyrical play, but less effective, partially because there is no really dramatic clash of wills. A man (D.J. Sullivan), who is tired of being "pased around like a dirty postcard," comes home to his woman (Louise Bell), who is sick of waiting for him. They soliloquize, and go to bed. Given such a soporific plot, Sullivan, through some pretty astute nuzzling, still manages to keep the play on its feet. While Miss Bell is supposed to be delicate, she seems just a little too erect and graceful for the role...
...quiet lyricism of Talk to Me Like the Rain is shattered by 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, for dramatic interest the best play of the three. Jo Linch, as the battered wife of an unscrupulous cotton-ginner, gives by far her best performance in this community, displaying a remarkable gift for change of pace. Occasionally vivacious, Miss Linch reserves her moments of stupidity for the times when she is confronted by a stronger will. Only during a few seconds--while skipping blithely around the stage--does her characterization crack. Andre Gregory, as her seducer, is less successful, partially because...
More than 1100 of the finest track men in the nation competed in the second annual Marine Corps School Relays, held in a pouring rain that turned the track into a virtual lake...
Answering the Boston weather bureau's Saturday night prediction of "rain, changing to snow flurries," the storm left more than a million Massachusetts residents without electricity or telephones, forced television and radio stations off the air, stopped flights at Logan Airport, and blocked highways for several hours...