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Very fitful, in the current Room Service, is the fun spawned of a shoestring producer living on tick with his cast while desperately trying to snag a backer. The whole first act is drearily obstreperous-for one reason because the cast plays straight to the audience, as though the backer could be found in the sixth row center. In the second act, both the play and the playing take on considerably more life. There is some funny pantomime, notably of the producer and two of his associates wolfing their first square meal in days. But there is never the faintest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...world. Inherited from the Nazis, the accommodations at these bases reflect the care that Hermann Goring lavished on his pet Luftwaffe. Runways (extended by the jet-flying allies) are long and smooth, operations buildings snugly efficient, living quarters furnished down to the last monogrammed china dinner service.* Only snag about the old German system of air bases: it faces the wrong way. The best of the fields, i.e., those in the Reich's rear areas, have two irremediable defects: 1) they are uncomfortably close to the Iron Curtain-many of them less than ten minutes by jet; 2) their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Operation Pullback | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Biggest snag was the lack of proper electrical equipment in the Center. Workers, however, have made the necessary minor electrical changes during the past week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Open New Dudley Grill; Second in College | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...turns to the candlelit image on his dresser, crosses himself, presses his palms together and prays: "Most saintly of Virgins, I don't ask to be good today. This is not like the other days. I only ask that they come out easy, that they don't snag me, that I may live and be able to worship you. Just let me live. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Afternoon of an Old Pro | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Snagless Zipper. Manhattan's Snag-Pruf Zipper Corp., which has been turning out a new nonjamming zipper for wholesalers at the rate of 100,000 a day, will sell it at retail for the first time this summer. The "trolley" can be removed from the tracks simply by pressing down on the tab used to pull it. Thus, any material that has been caught up can easily be freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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