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...glances through barred colonial windows, and reams of brief, impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Cocacolos | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...seven goal explosion in the second period enabled the jayvee hockey team to rout the M.I.T. varsity, 12 to 3, in its opening game on the Watson rink last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Sextet Routs MIT Varsity, 12-3 | 1/11/1955 | See Source »

...phony British nobleman's quest for the hand of an American heiress, a social-climbing American mother, and a visiting English lady named Mrs. Wollope, who like Mrs. Trollope is collecting data on the domestic manners of the Americans. In the course of the play, Colonel Wildfire helps rout the phony nobleman-and Mrs. Wollope as well. Sample dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Colonel Rides Again | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Weiland said he intended to stick with the same lineup used in Tuesday's 11-1 rout of Northeastern. Bill Cleary will center the first line with Terry O'Malley and Ned Bliss on his wings. The second right wing, Joe Crehore at center, and Frank Mahoney, who scored the hat trick in the opener, at left wing. Veteran Charlie Flynn will be in the goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Six Meets Boston College Tonight for N.E. Hockey Supremacy | 12/10/1954 | See Source »

...trainers at Dillon worked overtime to enable him to play, but he appeared in New Haven on crutches the day before the game. The crutches were a clever device of Coach Dick Harlow to fool Yale, however, for MacKinney was physically fit and instrumental in the 28-0 rout of the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/26/1954 | See Source »

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