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...performance of Boy Meets Girl. The play, a faintly risque farce, was obviously too much for the superintendent's wife-she swept out at the end of the second act. The superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., followed. Next day the rest of the play's three-day run was abruptly canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

They were worried because Monsanto had picked the town for one of the first U.S. peacetime atomic-energy laboratories. As construction got under way, Miamisburgers shivered with talk of bombs, death-dealing radiation, radioactive waste, etc. So the company's scientists staged a three-day atomic-energy show, explained patiently that Monsanto was not working on bombs but on peacetime uses. Their forecast: atomic energy would begin to revolutionize electrical power production within five to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Ready for Revolution | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Housewarming | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three-day annual executives' meeting in Manhattan talking about the Kinsey book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Behavior, After Kinsey | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...have little choice but to cancel the tour," stated G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music and Glee Club conductor, explaining regretfully that the major part of the trip was to have been though Sweden and Holland. The remainder of the tour consisted only of short three-day jaunts through Denmark, Finland, and Norway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Shelves Plans for Europe Tour This Summer | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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