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...Christmas pantomime produced by its kindergarten class. One of the Christmas angels was Linda Susan Agar. four-year-old daughter of Shirley Temple. Day after the play, headlines announced that Shirley Temple's daughter had made her "stage debut." Shirley, who started making movies at three-and-a-half, huffily withdrew Susan from the school which, she charged, was "trying to commercialize on me or my daughter." Said the bewildered headmaster: "I am completely baffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Three-and-a-half hours of Jean Crain and Janet Leigh in one double-feature is as good an excuse as any to forget that Thursday exam for one evening...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Belles On Their Toes | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

Perhaps Professor Kirkland can speak these words and go back to Maine with a clear conscience. But some of us, after three-and-a-half years at Dartmouth, cannot get off so easy. We don't lie awake nights worrying about how '51 will look at its thirtieth reunion (although it is a nightmare), we're more concerned with the way it looks right now, every day, this somester and next somestor, and how the College itself has looked since that fall of 1947 when we found the "roots of Radicalism," and President Tucker's "Liberal Tradition" to exist mostly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

Motorists have their choice of two routes for the three-and-a-half hour jaunt, according to the American Automobile Association. The first runs along U. S. Highway 3 through Lowell and Concord. New Hampshire, to Penacock; from there the trail branches off to U. S. Highway 4 to Lebanon, whence State Highway 10 leads to Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roads, Rails Aid Trip to Hanover | 11/8/1946 | See Source »

Politeness. Thanks to the Jap trick of not reporting many a prisoner, there was the cheering word that men long believed dead had survived. Three hundred men of the cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Back from the Grave | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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