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...inventiveness. He scores again in two other numbers that take imaginative advantage of the screen's technical magic. In one, he hoofs all over a room's ceiling and walls; in the other, he and Partner Powell work the lurching of an ocean liner into their shipboard act. Their best number together, matching the show-stopping caliber of Astaire's clothes-tree dance, is a rowdy comic song with a title that sets some kind of record: How Can You Believe Me When I Say That I Love You When You Know I've Been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Hawaii, Norway, France, or the Caribbean beckon the regular sailors who take three six-week summer cruises during their College careers. All the men perform regular shipboard duties at sea, but once ashore they try to duplicate Cambridge football weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Fail to Use Up 100 ROTC Openings; Princeton, Yale Have Larger Army Reserves | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

...American minister to Luxembourg and Washington's famous partygiver, starred as a guest at a party . . . She was guest of honor at the captain's table . . . [and] proved that she could 'take' as well as 'give' parties amiably." The Post's alert shipboard correspondent went on to prove himself a master of society-page cliches: the passengers, "a notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite of two continents," had been "enchanted" with the "charm with which the capital long has been familiar." She was "easily the 'personage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Notable Representation | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...important subjects to be taught on shipboard is travel mechanics--the rates of money and cigarette exchange, etc. Basic refresher and elementary courses stressing conversation will be held. There will be a library on board with a librarian supplied by UNESCO. Discussions and lectures on Europe and recreation are also planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Plans Orientation Program For 600 Europe-Bound Students | 3/4/1950 | See Source »

Later (the story goes), he tried to strike up a shipboard conversation with Morgan. "I sold out to you too cheaply," he said. "You'd have given me a hundred million more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: The View from 1900 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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