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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power scored a hit as a dashing Caribbean pirate in "The Black Swan," so he has again been thrust into the locale of his former triumph, this time as a member of the Cortez expedition. But Tyrone has been shortchanged; Twentieth Century Fox, though providing violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain from Castile | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...easy ends fell to the freshman and jayvee quintets yesterday, with the Yearlings taking their second victory from Exeter, 58 to 42, and the Jayvees knocking off a facilo if unimpressive 55 to 45 triumph over Suffolk University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling, Jayvee Fives Notch Easy Victories | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...Winthrop and Dudley initiated the second round of the inter-House basketball circuit last night in the Blockhouse, with the Puritans eking out a 42 to 36 win over Kirkland, and the Commuters catching Eliot from behind in the last minutes of play for a 41 to 39 triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan, Dudley Quintets Victors | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

...second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Altius, Citius, Fortius! | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Shaw, the author of "Bury the Dead," "The Assassins," and the movie script of "The Arch of Triumph," has not given up hope for "his baby," as he calls the play. When approached by RDC President Robert E. Miller '48 in New York Sunday, Shaw offered his assistance on the production and expressed the hope that HDC might be able to bring the play back to public attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Picks Irwin Shaw's 'Survivors' For Anniversary Spring Production | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

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