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She rehearsed Ariadne from a score annotated for her by Strauss 15 years ago. But Manhattan critics, busy passing out bravos all around for the City Opera's Ariadne, were generally cool to Ella. Said the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "She mostly stood around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 30- Year Sleeper | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Henry Lamar's Freshman eleven has been used as a guinea pig all week, running Coast Guard plays from the tricky "T" formation that the New Londoners employ, against the Varsity defenses. Harlow, as usual, devoted a major part of the drill to pass defense, for the Coasties' Sid Vaughn...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Works on Attack, Defense Against Coast Guard Formations | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

From where he stands a lot of things look awful to Big Boss Leahy. "If I only had a breakaway back," he mourns, adding that Notre Dame this year will probably play a good deal of "Minnesota football''' (three yards at a crunch). Leahy prefers tricky overhand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

The Percentage. An old hand at the tricky process of bringing buyers, sellers, property, and capital together, Zeckendorf spent five years getting his $50,000,000 project under way. Toughest job was getting control of the property, which he began to buy piecemeal soon after he got the idea. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Lemons to Grapefruit | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

What really makes the Code tricky is the way it is "interpreted" for each picture's questionable scenes. Four "interpretations" are currently troubling the British:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cleavage & The Code | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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