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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imponderables," says Rolles sadly, "and you never have enough time that's what makes it touch...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...Webster's article does give the April Advocate an interestingly medieval touch and is in agreeable contrast to the simplicity of Fodor's story and the topicality of the "arguments" over the Clubs. It is just this contrast and variety that the Advocate is evidently trying to foster. The editors should endeavor in the future to add depth of thought and clarity as well...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Revival in Washington | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna-until the moment he marched to the center of the stage and put on a priceless performance. The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities. Such naval details as supply, provision for his men, and overall shipshapeness were problems that he solved meticulously and with relish for every last detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naval Person | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race won at the canal turn; then he developed a painful crick in his neck, from an old injury, and lost his touch on the reins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: His Lordship Up | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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