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...Yardling squash team plays host to the Yale freshmen at 2 p.m. today on the Hemenway courts. Led by Captain Robin Magowan, the Crimson will be looking for an upset to improve on its record of two wins and three losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crippled Crimson Varsity Meets Eli In Squash Today | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

McIntosh won one game from Cohen, with the score of 17-18, and lost the others 15-13, 16-14, and 15-10. In second and third positions, Robin Magowan and Larry Sears both lost all three of their games to the Tech players. Fifth man John Davis clinched the only point for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. Varsity Squash Team Beats Yardling Squad, 4-1 | 3/10/1955 | See Source »

...Intruder (Associated Artists) is a happy example of the British talent for murmuring graceful commonplaces. Made from a Robin Maugham novel, Line on Ginger, the picture begins when a stockbroker (Jack Hawkins), home from an afternoon of golf, surprises a burglar (Michael Medwin) in his house. The man proves to be "Ginger" Edwards, a soldier the broker commanded in his regiment during World War II-and a good soldier he was. What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...however, always chords with a thoughtful undertone that carries through the whole picture. The moviemakers-Scriptwriters Robin Maugham and John Hunter, Director Guy Hamilton, Producer Ivan Foxwell-seem to have cared, not only to make good entertainment, but to get a real line on Ginger, and the warm pulse of that feeling beats through every performance and every scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...forest ranger, in his natty green uniform and campaign hat, strikes the national imagination as a sort of 20th century Robin Hood who lives a lonely life in a tower and periodically saves the bosky heritage from burning up and luscious lady campers from death. Today's ranger still fights forest fires, but he does his scouting from a plane instead of a lonely tower, lives cosily in a town with his wife and children, and spends about one-third of his 40-hour work week at a desk, shuffling papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL RESOURCES: Woodman, Chop that Tree! | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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