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Last night's informal dance at the Somerset finished the terpsichorean activities of the week which featured a Hop Concert at the Blockhouse on Tuesday evening. There Galli-Galli, an imported Egyptian, entertained with feats of magic and sleight-of-hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '23 Completes Three Days of Conviviality | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

Steel, the bellwether of U.S. industry (and the patternmaker for industrial wages), acted as if it were ashamed of what it was doing. There was no public announcement of the price advance. Some of the increases were accomplished by a sleight-of-hand change on the price tag. U.S. Steel's Carnegie-Illinois subsidiary merely told customers that semi-finished steel, which had previously sold at $55 a gross ton (2,240 lbs.), would now cost $54 a net ton (2,000 lbs.). Other major steel producers, as they usually do, followed Big Steel's example. Prices went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Jolt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...occasionally becomes too slow, and too nearly a literal-minded play. It would be much more real if it were less realistic. Apparently Producer-Director Korda was afraid to stylize the picture completely and so slowed up the lines for the general audience. These lines were meant for sleight-of-hand delivery; too often the players draw a diagram of how the rabbit got into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Wonder coach at the rustic and little known College of Western Maryland, Richard Cresson Harlow was appointed head coach at Harvard on January 7, 1935, to the dismay and discouragement of a Cambridge weary of football losses. In seven years of looping defenses, double shifts and sleight-of-hand offense, the prestidigitator from Westminster put the Crimson back in the Eastern football picture and in the process built himself a reputation as on of the leading tacticians in American football...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Harlow Concludes Stay with .543 Won and Lost Average | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...third week in November comes up, prestigitator Harlow's autumnal magic might put in a pre-Yale game appearance. But Rip Engle's agile backs and rugged line will demand more than sleight-of-hand taming. HARVARD BROWN Flynn (200) LER Boothby (200) Houston (200) LTR Rougvle (216) Drvaric (190) LGR lacuele (188) Glynn (195) C Regine (190) Feinberg (183) RGL Hodesh (196) Gorczynski (210) RTL Waiters (220) Felt (178) REL Flick (210) Kenary (183) QB Finn (170) Moffie (160) LHR Nelson (185) Gannon (180) RHL Kozak (168) Lazzaro (170) FB Green...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Brown Stomps in Today as 13-Point Favorite | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

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