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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dramatic Club and the Canterbury Players recently announced the cast of Christopher Fry's "Thor, with Angels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC, Canterbury Players Pick Actors for 'Thor, With Angels' | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

...Thor With Angels," a verse play by Christopher Fry, will be sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club, and produced on May 17, 18, and 19, the club announced last night. But a theatre has not yet been selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.D.C. Will Stage Verse Play, 'Thor With Angels,' by Fry | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

Within five weeks of its publication last fall, Thor Heyerdahl's tale of rafting the Pacific, Kon-Tiki (TIME, Sept. 18), climbed to the top of the U.S. bestseller list and has stayed there ever since. Including a Book-of-the-Month Club distribution of 200,000, U.S. sales have topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Secret Longing | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...dozen books on the implications of atomic warfare, was more curious about Frank Scully's mess of conjecture and hearsay on Behind the Flying Saucers. A more legitimate curiosity about six men on a raft in the Pacific elevated to best-sellerdom a rousing record of adventure in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. In the midst of the new confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent. Yet some were important for the record and others still generated excitement. Easily the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS: 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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