Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk . . . [when] I happened to glance at your hypnotic "The Finest Time of the Year" [TIME, Oct. 11]. I got as far as "First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins," and fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards...
Under an overcast sky, Ike took his place on the Low Library steps-at the right hand of Frederic K. Coykendall, chairman of Columbia's trustees, who was enthroned on a great horsehair armchair that had once belonged to Ben Franklin. Four times Ike heard his praises (and Columbia's) loudly sung; each time he tipped his gold-tasseled mortarboard to the speaker. Then Chairman Coykendall surrendered to President Eisenhower the university charter, the keys and the horsehair throne. At that instant, as if on cue, the sun smiled through the clouds...
...Tributary Theater's production of Anna Christie at New England Mutual Hall, are revivals. Some, like Finian's Rainbow and Harvey, are returning to Boston after long runs on Broadway. And others, such as Michael Todd's new production As the Girls Go, Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky, or Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling's Minnle and Mr. Williams, are on their first trial runs here before hitting the big time...
Finian's Rainbow and Harvey should be sure bets for anyone that has missed them so far, since both shows have retained their original casts. Light Up The Sky, a satirical comedy show business, features, among others, Virginia Field, Sam Levine, and Audrey Christie, and has been well reviewed by the Boston critics...
...Light Up The Sky" can not compare with "The Man Who Came To Dinner," on which play Hart collaborated with the great comic genius, George S. Kaufman. But the new play is like the earlier masterpiece in that both shows hit their strides when they insult people. In "Light Up The Sky," directed by Hart himself, the insults come crisp and clean and funny. If Hart can now grease up the serious portions of the show, Broadway's big brass will be in for vigorous punishment for several months to come...