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...Last Sunday, however, Dorow was named top performer in a North-South "Senior Bowl" game, with competition from Hank Lauricella and Babe Parilli. The only thing Dorow didn't attempt to do in the East-West contest was punt. Kazmaier got off one hell of a boot that carried sixteen yards...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 1/8/1952 | See Source »

...brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pregnant Mice Prove Environment, Heredity Cause Deformities in Young | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

...unusually fraudulent advertising campaign has promised that this picture depicts "the mob that defied the Kefauver Committee" and reveals the shocking truth about "those sixteen unsolved murders." This is hogwash in the best ad-man tradition; the film states that any relation to real persons or places is purely coincidental. But "The Mob" still has plenty to recommend it in Crawford's excellent acting, its snappy dialogue in the best Raymond Chandler style, and the constant suspense of characters in double roles. After an hour or so of general mayhem in alleys, bars, cheap hotels, and black sedans...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

...Sixteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night. They are Hugh Amory, of Dover and Kirkland, English; Richard J. Barnet 1L, of Brookline and Eliot, Slavic languages; Leo Bersani, of Katonah, N.Y. and Leverett, Romance languages; Donald L. Blackmer, of Andover and Lowell. History and Literature; Gaynor F. Bradish, of Schenectady, N.Y. and Dunster, English; and Melvin W. Brown, of Conotton. Ohio and Lowell, Chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Sixteen From Senior Group | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

Margaret plays a sixteen year old version of Jeanne D'Arc who cannot decide whether to enter a convent, thus pleasing one half of her family, or stay out and please the other half. By the end of the first act last Monday, the audience seemed in favor of the convent--the sooner the better...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

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