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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probing and drawing out of these characters, top-level production aids Aaron's direction. Donald Bourne's semi-abstract setting facilitates the intrusions into Willy's mind, and with the addition of Jordan Jelke's complex and intelligent lighting, makes the many swift transitions of mood and locale neat and effective. Caldwell Titcomb's striking musical score powerfully augments these effects, and is always appropriate. Happily, considering the intricacy of the production, there is a professional polish in meeting cues which characterizes the entire play...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Death of a Salesman | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

Foster, after pinning Pittsburgh's Tony Vuocolo in 2:56 in the preliminary round, gained the semi-finals with a 4-2 decision win over Columba's Gene Appel. Then, in the semis, he turned back Doug Volugenau of Navy 8 to 5. In the finals, however Foster dropepd a 9-4 decision to Lehigh's Ed Hamer and gained only a second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Finish 9th In 16-Team Easterns | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

...expatriate (class of '29-'30) varies the familiar symptoms slightly by making hers a lost-and-found generation novel. In the pages of The Malefactors, the mourning after the big Paris binge becomes a kind of purgatory on the road to religious serenity. In keeping with its semi-autobiographic overtones (Author Gordon and her poet-critic-novelist husband, Alien Tate, are recent Roman Catholic converts), this book is one of those Mary McCarthy-like exercises in intellectual cattiness in which one claws one's literary coterie in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ode to the Expatriate Dead | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Morrison pinned Ed Fisher of Rutgers in 1:33 of the first round for the quickest time of the tournament. In the quarter finals and semi-finals Morrison went into an overtime and even then the matches had to be decided by the referee's decision. Bill Oberly of Penn State downed Morrison 5 to 3 in the finals with all Lehigh cheering for Morrison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Wins Intercollegiates | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Last month, when newsmen were admitted through the heavy security net around the Lincoln Laboratories, they saw for the first time the M.I.T.-developed SAGE warning system--"semi-automatic ground environment." Designed to eliminate human errors in data-processing, Project Lincoln's electronic devices assemble and evaluate battle information, and even direct the attack of interceptors. With the Bedford installation serving as a prototype coordinating the air defense of New England, 32 similar centers are projected for the United States and Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Work Forms Educational Foundation | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

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