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...plans to spend a week-end in Stratford, it is advisable to make arrangements in advance. While (shudder) New Haven and Bridgeport are not exactly resort towns, there are numerous hotels and motels in both places. The Festival stands ready to make reservations in advance...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Out of Cambridge, Much Ado | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Their backs to the wall after an ignominious defeat by Tufts earlier in the week, the Crimson varsity basketball team fought valiantly this week-end, smashing Columbia, 80-61, Friday, and then losing, 58-55, in the last eight seconds to Cornell on the next night...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Basketball Team Downs Columbia, Bows to Cornell | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Wild Is the Wind (Hal Wallis; Paramount) makes a reasonably honest, week-end farmer's effort to turn the warm loam of natural life. Director George Cukor, though obviously a city feller, has managed to provide himself, for the occasion, with a conspicuously green thumb. Producer Hal Wallis has provided the movie with Italy's Anna Magnani, an actress as earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 30--Attendance continued to climb at Central High School today despite a week-end telephone campaign urging parents to keep their children at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Central High School Attendance Climbs Despite Campaign | 10/1/1957 | See Source »

...booklet), and she thus needs something to "clear the cobwebs out of her brains." The solution, of course, is WAA (Weekend Activities Association). This tasteless group (it plans freshman dances with Yale, Princeton, and Williams) adds "the fun of new faces and new places" to the overworked child's "week-end curriculum...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: What Every Girl Should Know | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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