Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counterattack (adapted from the Russian of Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman by Janet and Philip Stevenson; produced by Lee Sabinson) is a play about Russians and Nazis that could just as well be about cops & robbers. For three acts a Russian corporal and private stand guard -in a claustrophobic cellar whose entrance caves in-over seven disarmed but wily Nazis and a German nurse. Because they cannot find out which Nazi is the officer they have been ordered to bring back alive, the Russians must hold their rebellious, scheming prisoners rather than shoot them down. Since one Russian gets wounded...
Anti-Sectarian. In St. Louis, Andrew Thomas Stevenson sued for divorce, complaining that his wife refused to feed him any white bread, white sugar, or meat because it violated the Scientific Order of Spectro-Chrome Metrists' rules based on "solar, lunar, and terrestrial radiant gravitation influence...
Unfortunately, it is the story of this ace-high comedy which has been continually discussed: how Ginger has to get back home to Stevenson, Iowa, and fakes her age for a half-fare ticket, is caught by the conductor, takes Major Ray Milland for the well-known ride, weekends as his guest at Wallace Military Academy, straightens out his love life, and finally ends up at home in an anti-climactic finale...
Name News. In Syracuse. Oassie Stimer had his name legally changed to Stanley Steamer. At Rutgers University, Robert Louis Stevenson enrolled in an elementary course in English composition. In Detroit, the Housing Commission pondered evicting Worthy Peoples for not paying his rent. In Portland, Ore., E. L. Aprill and T. B. Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...
...Widener last Saturday there were only ten copies of Stevenson, History I textbook, and about twenty men asked for each copy. Already a load of extra chairs have been dumped into the reading room and they are filled till ten o'clock every night. These facts seem to be clear enough indication that rush is on. Not only will 1200 odd History, Government, and Economics readers continue to swell the crowd flocking through the white pillars, but with the Union Library locked up they will be joined by hundreds of other Freshmen. The House libraries, primarly intended for tutorial...