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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year will have to have most of the same qualities, because machine-like Golfer Hogan rarely has a bad day, rarely plays two bad holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Yard's reading period basketball tournament enters its second round tonight with eight games scheduled for the Indoor Athletic Building and Hemenway Gym. Matthews North, Matthews South, Holworthy, and Mower were all impressive in their Tuesday night outings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Basketball Meet Starts Second Round | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

...dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This one is followed by a ballet number on the same theme which employs every cliche of dance and plot. It is very well danced by Viola Essen, but Markova couldn't make choreography interesting...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...Another Part of the Forest, this is a surprisingly uneven job; notably, Gordon squeezes much less than he might out of the buildup to the "mercy killing" itself. The picture is also disappointing because it dodges and neglects so much. The pros & cons of euthanasia are presented in the round; a distinction is made between moral and legal guilt; and something of the misery of deceit is shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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