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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganized House next January will go a whopping number of new members. Whatever they may lack in polish and statesmanship, and whatever they do to Harry Truman's plans, they will add much to the life, color, success or failure of the Both Congress. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces in the House | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Says Bullis: "Because of their wider knowledge of practical life problems, some of the boys with juvenile court records have made excellent contributions to discussions and for the first time have achieved classroom success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Makes Dumbo Run? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

With its biggest success of a decade, "Adam the Creator," still running at Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Dramatic Club yesterday elected officers for the coming year. Two of the top officers were retained, Paul S. Burggraf '48 as President and Richard Milstein '48 as Secretary-Treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burggraf Retains Presidency As H.D.C. Elects New Officers | 11/15/1946 | See Source »

This is Hart's first play since the warmed-over USO show, "Winged Victory," which he turned out during the war. It is not a success. Within a certain limited scope Hart is almost incapable of writing a bad line; the plot crisis of "Christopher Blake" is both believable and original--in the sense that it has not been rendered meaningless by countless Hollywood pot-boilings; and the acting is remarkably good throughout the large cast. All of which makes the failure of the play particularly unfortunate, for what ails it cannot be remedied in the traditional method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

...genuineness of the play's problem, the fact remains that either the problem could not be written into a three-act play or merely that Hart was incapable of doing so. Failing that, he has fallen back on the formula which made his "Lady in the Dark" such a success, the dream sequence. Thus with the aid of four (or is it five?) voyages into the tortured unconscious of Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying, the dreams are almost without exception extremely disagreeable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

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