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Word: stephen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other members of the executive board named last night are: Ernest T. Berkeley, Jr., John S. Hermann, Richard E. Johnson, Stephen I. Rudin, Daniel J. Young, and George C. Viahos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Names 10 Men to Executive Board | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Four more meetings are scheduled for the Goethe festival. Miss Olga Fabian, actress and lecturer, will read some of Goethe's poems on November 3. Stephen Spender will lecture on the "Outer and Inner Worlds of Goethe" on November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celebration of Goethe's Birth Starts Tonight | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...Browning Version and A Harlequinade (by Terence Rattigan; produced by Maurice Evans in association with Stephen Mitchell) stars Maurice Evans and Edna Best in a double bill requiring their British accents. As playwrighting, it is not too far from double bilge; Rattigan's study of a defeated schoolmaster is only a shade less routine than his spoofing of ham actors. As entertainment, however, there is a substantial difference between the two. The Browning Version, besides being almost exhilaratingly grim, gives everybody a chance to act; A Harlequinade 'encourages everybody to over-cavort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Playlets In Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Russia's V. M. Zonov, while pointing-out that the "progressive social legislation" in the Soviet Union had solved the problem of prostitution, nevertheless supported the unamended article, to help alleviate, in other countries, an evil "from, which the poor suffer most." In vain Haiti's Stephen Alexis argued that it was no use trying to suppress prostitution,, since, "as long as there are planets in the sky," there would also be prostitutes, and-at that, "of both sexes." France's amendment (if not Mrs. Warren's profession) was defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Planets in the Sky | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Dear Friend and Gentle Hearts." With these last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tales Out of Sunday School | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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