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...Leueen MacGrath) who has been condemned to hang for poisoning her brother, and who is forced by floods-while being taken to prison-to spend some time at a convent. A nursing sister (Margaret Webster) has a fierce conviction that the girl is innocent, and works at the case till she finds the right solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Prairie Wonder. The idea for the railroad was first advanced in 1835 by Colonel Sidney Breese, an Illinois prairie lawyer who later became U.S. Senator. Not till 16 years later did Senator Stephen A. Douglas win a grant of 2,595,600 acres from the Government-the first to any railroad-and persuade Eastern and British financiers (including Gladstone, Stephen Cunard and Economist Richard Cobden) to put up $9,000,000 to construct a 705-mile "Y"-shaped road. It stretched north from Cairo, and forked to East Dubuque and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Mid-America's Main Line | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...where does the sun set?" shouted the professor. "Don't point till you've looked to make sure it's there." The Republicans had a lot to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Power Through Speech | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...white doves that Tenor McKinley, as the magician, was supposed to release in the second act. When the doves were delivered to McKinley's apartment, the cook baked them for dinner. And there were a lot of other things cooking that Menotti did not learn about till the curtain went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Menotti Flayed | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...Cylinder Complex. The handsome, blond freshman who went to Princeton from St. Paul in the fall of 1913 had been a thoroughly spoiled youngster ("I didn't know till 15 that there was auyone in the world except me . . .")*When he started school at the age of seven, it was on condition that he go only half days, whichever half he chose. Later, when he made the football team at Newman School, the quarterback threatened in the middle of a game to beat up Fitzgerald because he didn't have the guts to make a tackle. Already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Binge | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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