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In Toronto, Bridge Expert Oswald Jacoby stuck his neck out: "Canasta is the only game that my wife and I could play . . . with some of our half-witted friends. [It] can be enjoyed by everyone, unlike bridge, where a poor player can spoil the game for others."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

For a computing machine, Bessie is old: she has been steadily at work since 1944. And she is not the brightest of her breed. Compared to her children and grandchildren (one of whom, Harvard's Mark III -see cover-lives on the floor below in Harvard's Computation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Playing on the same bill at the Metropolitan is the Preston Sturges comedy, "The Lady Eve." This film, also an old-timer, is a sophisticated piece about a confidence woman and the heir to the fortunes of Pike's Pale, "The Ale that Won for Yale." The dialogue abounds in...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Last week, with old grads running a temperature for the first time in eight years, Fordham set out for West Point. To avoid any misunderstanding, Coach Ed Danowski told his boys, "They're going to hit you harder than you have ever been hit before." The answer voiced by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scuffling Cinderellas | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Science Fiction Fan Hoen particularly liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adventures in Time & Space | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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