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...tumult-creating Catskill resort entertainer who clowns around the clock to keep hotel guests amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Traveling Salesman | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...year-old John J. Theobald, dean of administration at Manhattan's City College for the last three years. Before that he had taught civil engineering at City College, supervised some highway surveys in New York State. Stepping into the Queens presidency after the past year's tumult and shouting didn't worry him; he called it "a perfectly wonderful opportunity." He thought he had been around the city's colleges long enough to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vacancy Filled | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Odets may speak softly to Astrologer Holmes, but he had to shout to be heard above the tumult at the Waldorf. Meanwhile, theatergoers certainly have been reaching to hear what he has to say at the National Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Astoria last week while pickets chanted, prayed and shouted on the sidewalks outside. At the storm's center, 2,800 delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace-Communists and both calculating and befuddled followers-wallowed in a sea of windy "peace" talk. In all the tumult, the delegates and their gusts of fog-laden dialectics could at first hardly be heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tumult at the Waldorf | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...shouted insults, catcalls, whistles. Leaflets were circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with a cigar in one hand, a bunch of tulips in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Defeat of the Hecklers | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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