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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be surmised from the title--"Texas, Li'l Darlin'"--and the foregoing commentary, the plot makes no noticeable effort to avoid the cliches apparently inherent in a Texas theme. Though I do not share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...flavor has gone from Duffy's mulligan. I always liked Archie [but] I can't say as much for Ed Gardner. How come, he can't pay his share of the taxes like the rest of us . . .? CHUCK ABBOTT Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Spurred by righteous clubwomen, the town marshal took Janie away from her foster parents and brought her to the generous Smiths, who let her share Lillian's room, clothes and toys. But one day, after a phone call from an orphanage, Lillian was told Janie would have to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tract from the South | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...unexpectedly heavy demand by seniors is expected to be repeated in the lower classes. This will mean in all likelihood that juniors and sophomores will share sections 35 and 36 with the overflow being out in sections 28 and 29 at the other end of the field. Freshmen will probably find their seats in the colonade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Rush Ticket Offices For Princeton | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tobacco & Erudition | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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