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Peter Lorre, as a small time peddler of happiness, this time in the form of contraband exit visas, is his usual wicked self and Claude Raines, playing a French prefect willing to go along with the Germans, is brilliantly non-committal. Striking down nothing more menacing than flies, Sidney Greenstreet...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: Casablanca | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Frank got back to the jungle in time to fight a couple of spectacularly unconvincing battles, but pretty soon he was off to Allied headquarters, where he fought such a long-drawn-out legal engagement with Chiang Kai-shek and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that anybody who sees this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Main points: 1) in the East, China will give up its occupation of the Longju outpost, six miles inside the Indian frontier, if India will evacuate ten other passes and strongpoints along the border; 2) in the Western or Kashmir region, China claims to have been in occupation of large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Chou Wants | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes to end A. W. Huguley, as Harvard triumphed, 13 to 0. The strong Crimson line, paced by captain Ben Ticknor, bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing."

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

Harvard fell quickly from its 1913 peak, and Brown managed its first win three years later, after a tie game and an unconvincing Crimson victory. In 1918, following a one-year lapse in the rivalry, the Bruins won again, 6 to 3, but the Crimson rallied with three straight triumphs...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Leads, 42--14, In Rivalry With Brown | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

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