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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean of Admissions and Scholarships also said yesterday he is unaware of any plan to increase radically the size of the next Freshman class. "We are working on the assumption that there will be no increase in size," Dean Bender asserted. However, he emphasized that Dean Bundy, not his Committee, is "the final authority on the matter...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Official Predicts Rise In Next Freshman Class | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

Time, conceding it to be "an effort of a sort and size rare in today's U.S. theatre," opined that it "has an often stunning theatricality, notably in the first half," but that the second half "rather lacks a strong pulse" and ends on a note that is "unsatisfying... because it lacks dramatic truth...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More on 'J.B.' | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

Menard prison's eight-page, tabloid-size monthly newspaper is one of the best of some 200 publications produced by and for convicts. As a whole, they make for one of the more captivating aspects of the nation's press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captive Press | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Centered in Bombay, Indian moviemaking is a montage of pomp, profit and speculation. The size of the market is fantastic : 730 million annual Indian moviegoers, plus Southeast Asia, the Middle East and many countries behind the Iron Curtain. But Bombay also has trouble: a severe star shortage. For all of Bombay's 20 studios, which make some 300 pictures yearly (in 19 Indian languages), there are only twelve top stars. They work in as many as 15 movies simultaneously, dashing from studio to studio in limousines, and often a hero and heroine do their parts in so many scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: The New Maharajahs | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...white sales and seasonal clearances with inventories lower and spirits higher than in years. The brightest post-Christmas promotion was put on by Dallas' A. Harris & Co. For one day, it announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit, which is the wrong size or pattern or color, which is simply not wanted, or which duplicates another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fast Finish | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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