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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stop Power Politics...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Under the punning slogan of "Stop Power Politics," Collins thus implies that his opponent values his own career more than such matters as education, that he either deals with or at least sympathizes with gamblers and underworld figures, and that hidden sinister sources are supplying his financial support. In response, Powers claims that he can "do more for Boston," in short, that he is effective as a politician. Of course, he denies any dishonest dealings...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Reports reached Cambridge late last night that the band was planning to give Princeton undergraduates a surprise concert at 4 a.m. this morning. The band expected to play during a brief stop-over in its trip to the University of Pennsylvania for today's football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plans Concert | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

...world in certain respects, and I am not convinced this is the best place for a performing musician." Contemporary composers should come to the University to play and speak with undergraduates "or else the entire musical community cannot flourish," Senturia recommends. Music at Harvard for him thus does not stop with the HRO; it is a living, all-important concern which extends far beyond his three rehearsals per week and his teaching in Music 253, formerly taught by Walter Piston. But beyond all this, Senturia exhibits qualities of understanding and charm--additional attributes for the successful new conductor...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Music Man | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

...roulette by using their ship's "top-secret" mechanical computer, it involves signals between harbor and hotel suite, their own admiral in the suite below, the admiral's inevitably winsome daughter, signalmen who pass out, couples who dive into canals, Venetian glass, Venetian gangsters, and phones that stop ringing only when doorbells start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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