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...breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links of mine musta hooked on your watch chain dere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 10,000th Performance | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...read, write and speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo's whole odd story was stranger than the tortuous trail which led him from a Japanese prison camp on Corregidor to a federal courtroom in New York's Foley Square, where he sat on trial last week for treason during wartime (maximum penalty: death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Case of the Buddhist Sergeant | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Sulphur & Holy Water. While some of the guests went outside to see the newcomer's coach, which shone like a mirror and was drawn by a horse with flaming eyes, the stranger danced with Blanche, who trembled as he whispered: "How pretty you are!" Then they passed close to the Moreaus' two-year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Handsome Dancer | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...first Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert of the season will be given at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Sanders Theatre. Russell Stranger will conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Gives First Concert Sunday | 11/15/1952 | See Source »

...When Harry sees our signs," said the first HLU'er, "he's sure to come to our cocktail party at Lowell House," "Yeh, suce he'll come. He's got nothing better to do," grumbled the second. "Stranger things have happened," stated the third. The other two pressed their faces against the car windows...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: The Whistlestoppers | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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