Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better not be here when the celere [riot squads] start moving.' They went away and I stayed open...
...critics wrote sentimentally affectionate reviews. One dissent came from New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, who found the new four-a-day show a pale shadow of the classic two-a-day that died at the Palace in 1932. It was true that to get a new start, the proud old Palace had humbled itself with low-budget acts and no headliners. In a famed Variety phrase, the new show's hoofers, illusionists and comics were "good for the smalltime." But Variety itself, pointing to the Palace's low admission scale (55? to 95? on weekdays), gave...
...commencement speculation on this year's honorary degree recipients got off to an early start yesterday when the Boston Globe came out with the news that Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24 will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws at graduation Thursday, June 23. Lodge is chief marshal of the Class...
...Florida, the House Communism Investigating Committee is getting ready to start a study of possible Communist influences at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A. and M. College. Nobody has been dismissed as yet, but the legislature plans to ask instructors for a loyalty oath and intends to question them on their political party affiliations, on their possible past connections with the Communist party, and on their views about racial segregation...
Barry Turner will oppose Murphy and try to check a club which has exploded for 12, 16, 16, and 22 runs in four sundry games. Harvard, generally unstable at the start of the season, seems headed in the right direction for the home stretch but is still somewhat unpredictable...