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With the Yale game officially a sellout and many alumni disappointed in their attempts to get tickets, undergraduates are placing tickets on the market for as much as $50 a pair. Two signs in the Union yesterday gave phone numbers of would-be scalpers asking that price. Both said they have had no calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scalper Asking $50 For Paired Yale Tix | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Mine, starring Mario Lanza. The new black & white "magpie" evening gown, which the Queen wore for the occasion, turned out to be a star attraction too. Three days later, West End department stores reported that a copy of the Queen's gown (price: $27) was a sellout item...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...black, mauve and blue. His figures are tortured and twisted: grinning, round-faced peasants with shark's teeth, haunted, droopy-eyed old women, a wheel-shaped nightmare of a sea captain. On opening day, five of the pictures were snapped up and the gallery was looking for a sellout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Turkish Delight | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...million worth of unreleased pictures. If exhibitors boycotted the new films, as they threaten to do if RKO jells to TV, the studio could easily lose more than a TV deal might make. President Stolkin also soothed the exhibitors with word that RKO was planning no such sellout to TV at present. Said he: "RKO movies and television are not married, but engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Winning Numbers | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...said that even Democrats crossed party lines to vote for McCarthy. This is untrue. County-by-county breakdowns show that insofar as Democrats did vote in the Republican primary, it was for Schmitt. The only exceptions were three wards in the Polish section of South Milwaukee, where the "sellout of Poland" issue obscured even McCarthyism...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Campaign | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

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