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Among the existing period courses, however, the American literature picture is especially well covered, with Matthiessen, Miller, and Murdock all presenting penetrating and stimulating courses. Levin is topnotch on drama, comparative literature, and criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...time a Crum protégé reaches Allentown High, he should know the coach's system of "give-and-go" and "flooding the center-lane." Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champs by Crum | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...usual, there seemed to be no worry about paying the check. From anonymous sources came $528,000 to buy London's topnotch Westminster Theater for Buchmanite theatricals. And as a continental HQ, the Group acquired (for $250,000) the sumptuous, turreted Palace Hotel in the Swiss resort town of Caux, high above Lake Geneva. Renaming it "Mountain House," the Buchmanites moved in last summer and say they have kept it filled to its 700-person capacity ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions at Caux | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...port wine, is a commodity the English are in the habit of importing. No Englishman has ever written a successful opera, though young Benjamin Britten's may one day make the grade, (TIME, Aug. 19). Even good English opera singers are rare. London has long been without a topnotch opera company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Two Easy Steps | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Liberty Films was incorporated. Briskin took on the job of executive management, leaving Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make one postwar picture for Samuel Goldwyn, turned out the excellent The Best Years of Our Lives before he could join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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