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...Green Death has reached another Radcliffe dormitory. About ten Briggs Hall girls were its victims on Tuesday. Most of them had recovered from the attacks by yesterday, but some still agreed with Vera Blass '53, who said "I'd love to go to the library, but I'm not sure I'd make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Stricken By Green Death | 5/31/1951 | See Source »

...there is the terrible Lord Bodsham, "The Curse of the Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: P.G. Flitters On | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...Genoa citizenry which moves naturally through its city adds to the film's authenticity. The acting is excellent: Jean Gabin is convincingly weary and revived as the Frenchman; Isa Miranda is appropriately tender and brave as the woman who revives him and who finds satisfaction amidst poverty; and Vera Talchi is very good as her canny 11-year-old daughter...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Festival (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBCTV) is an hour-long look at Tenor James Melton juicily singing such chestnuts as My Wild Irish Rose, or walking through a scene from Madame Butterfly. Each musical number is scored, acted and costumed as though it were the finale. Also on hand: Monologist Vera Vague; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Commercials: unobtrusive films of the latest Ford models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...worldly ways. "Yesterday evening [Papa Tolstoy] asked Lev what he had in his hand. Lev was obliged to say it was a bracelet, which the ... boys were offering to Zankovetzki, the actress. Papa turned sadly away, then asked me what I was reading-a fashion journal! And what was Vera Tolstoy doing this evening? She had gone to the theater . . . Papa stood motionless for some time, all of us sitting there, hanging our heads; then he turned about and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family of a Genius | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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