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...Browning Version. Michael Redgrave as an English public-school teacher burdened with humiliating failure until Playwright-Scripter Terence Rattigan helps him to straighten up (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Browning Version. Michael Redgrave as an English public-school teacher burdened with humiliating failure until Playwright-Scripter Terence Rattigan helps him to straighten up (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Answering Calls. Black-browed Bill Draper is one of that group of Wall Streeters-among them Forrestal, Stimson, Lovett, Patterson, McCloy and Har-riman-who, though usually Republican, have temporarily answered the call of Government whenever a problem needed a tough, practical administrator to straighten it out. Unlike some of them, Draper is no hereditary economic royalist. Born in New York City, the son of a dentist, he went to New York University (Class of '16), got his start in business at the National City Bank, later switched to Dillon, Read & Co., where his boss was Forrestal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Topside Teammates | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...about time we try to straighten this upside-down world, recognize our own role, and realize that the Soviet Union is like a page ripped from a history of Attila or Machiavelli and inserted into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Maids are a luxury that the College still offers in spite of rising costs. The Cambridge women who come in to clean have been known even to darn the socks of a student, but others merely straighten out the beds each morning. Student porters will fill in for the maids in a few places this year.This is one of the College's seven upperclassmen Houses (LOWELL) which are located on or near the Charles River. After spending their first year together in the Yard, freshmen will apply in April for one of the seven. Each House provides living quarters...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: 12 Yard Dorms House '55 | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

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