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Yale's hopes were not entirely quashed even at the end, when Smith tried a series of long heaves that failed to connect. Fresh from the cheers of the crowd, the triumphant Jayvees threw the happy chief into the shower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Edge Eli Eleven by 28-26 Margin | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

...Love or Money (by F. Hugh Herbert; produced by Barnard Straus) was kept from becoming a minor Broadway debacle through a Broadway debut. Day after the opening of this knickknack by the author of Kiss and Tell, a shower of glittering adjectives ("captivating," "enchanting," "beguiling") descended on gay, winsome, 22-year-old blonde Ingenue June Lockhart (daughter of stage & screen's Gene and Kathleen Lockhart). Already nicely launched in Hollywood (All This and Heaven Too, Meet Me in St. Louis'), June is pretty certainly Broadway's young thing of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...delightful. Luncheon, luncheon, puncheon before-I'll go, he decided. It wouldn't be right to cut his own roommate, even though that nutmeg floating...I can't, Vag said suddenly aloud, I can't drink that awful, awful awful any more. He braced himself for the shower, braced two or three times experimentally, then slumped into the chair and on with the radio. "And now our Morning Pops program, brought to you by Almeda Fiddle, presents Arthur Fiedler and the Bawwstun Pawwps in De Riccerio's "Dance of the..." Bang went the door to the bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago suburb 82 old ladies declared warmly: "We are all young enough to believe in love as a very important part of international relations." To prove it the ladies gave a shower last week at the Hollywood, ILL. British Old People's Home. Amid toasts drunk in sauterne or tea, they sent a copy of Love Ledger, a bride's first-year book, and a hand-stitched sachet pillow to Princess Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Curiosity Shop | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...share-your-shower-with-a-Mount-Holyoke-girl campaign gained rapid headway at Harvard over the weekend, as a steady stream of Dartmouth-game dates poured into Cambridge with sorrowful tales of the Connecticut Valley water shortage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holyoke Coiffures Droop in Drought But Girls Spurn Shower-Share Plans | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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