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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, the Women's Auxiliary Cheering Squad will be valuable athletically. Why should the Buffalo team have their Bisonettes when the Crimson only has John Harvard? Even Radcliffe's detractors cannot anticipate trouble from the UAC, which dismissed the recent cheerleaders on the grounds that they were unknown and failed to stimulate the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cutie Canvass | 11/7/1958 | See Source »

...Make a Million, a Southern gal who is $100,000 ahead on a TV quiz show proves to be pregnant by an unknown soldier: to save the show's honor, the girl must be married at once. At once the motor whirs, in dash the characters, and out bounce the gags, off falls the handle. It is pure, dedicated hackwork, with no sign that the authors ever once are writing down. There are two or three good mad situations, a dozen or so funny gags. Topping a helpful cast is Sam Levene, has both a born knack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...this, as in the other three stories (also about waifs and strays), Author Capote has retained sentiment without permitting himself schmalz, achieved pity without falling into self-pity. Over whatever is sordid falls his crisp, clean prose. At the end of Breakfast, Holly's whereabouts are unknown and she may even be dead and "travelin' through the pastures of the sky." But her fate is really written in her dialogue. Bad little good girls like Holly Golightly never die; they go to Broadway, where Julie Harris plays them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Little Good Girl | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Moss. Watkins is notable for nothing beyond his chairmanship of the McCarthy censure committee. Moss, as county attorney of Salt Lake County, had most of his crime-busting thunder stolen by Salt Lake City's over-vigilant, FBI-trained police chief. Moss did manage to beat an unknown young attorney named Brigham Roberts for the Democratic nomination, but he is not well known in the state or in its most populous areas...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Brack | 10/30/1958 | See Source »

...varsity will have to beat the Cardinals without the services of its star left fullback, Lanny Keyes. Keyes came down with knee trouble after the Dartmouth game and will not even make the trip. His status for the important game against Penn on Saturday is still unknown. Captain Floyd Moloy has recovered from his sprained ankle and will see limited action at right fullback today...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Varsity Soccer to Oppose Winless Wesleyan Today | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

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