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Word: sylvia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Harlem, a young woman named Sylvia Carol Steinberg, armed with hypodermics and vials, went briskly to work in a restaurant. Queues formed quickly. In two days, with her boy friend looking on admiringly, she had vaccinated 500 people. Suspicious cops finally hauled her into a police station, found that she had "vaccinated" everybody with water. Arraigned for "assault," she was packed off to a psychiatric ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Smallpox Scare | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Barefoot Boy with Cheek (book by Max Shulman; music by Sidney Lippman; lyrics by Sylvia Dee; produced by George Abbott) is another of those youthful musical frolics (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) for which Producer Abbott has become famous-and a little fatiguing. This one's locale is the University of Minnesota, and its line-up includes a fraternity run like a clip joint, a lummox of a football star, a pinhead of a society student, a sourball of a professor, a strident campus Communist, and a freshman hero (Billy Redfield) who is mauled by coeds and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Bathsheba (by Jacques Deval; produced by Maximilian Becker & Lee K. Holland in association with Sylvia Friedlander) is just an ancient vehicle used to get British Cinemactor James Mason onstage for his first appearance on Broadway. Mr. Mason's performance as King David is an agreeable one, but it far from compensates for Mr. Deval's play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., Naomi Sylvia Charner, vice president of Phi Omega Chi sorority, turned in her pin because the sorority had refused admission to a Negro student. Retorted a sorority sister: "It's only kindness to keep from pledging a Negro girl. After all, there are so many places Negroes can't go socially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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