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...Children's Theater announced that it will produce "The Wizard of Oz" at the end of March. Following its Cambridge opening, the children's fantasy will be played in the Boston area and in Connecticut, on a spring vacation tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatists to Give 'The Wizard of Oz' | 1/12/1956 | See Source »

...Arthur S. Genet, 46, a railroader, was named president of Greyhound Corp., biggest U.S. bus company. He will succeed Orville Swan Caesar, president since 1946, who will move up to board chairman. Genet, whom Caesar hails as a "wizard in the field of traffic promotion," was born in Manhattan, became controller of New York's Central Coal Co. Inc. at the age of 30. He began his railroading career in 1943 as an officer of National Carloading Corp., became its president (at 35) a year later. In 1946 he became assistant vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...main plaza, the band followed the national anthem with a new Hymn to Fleming. Then Lady Fleming unveiled a bust of the man Spaniards call El Buen Sabio (The Good Wizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Good Wizard | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...princess, danced by pretty Svetlana Beriosova), and the girls went into low-pressure love rites. The Russian fairy tale plot darkened further-got so dark, in fact, that only the program notes could make it almost clear. A gang of leaping fiends, Tartars and scimitarists introduced a horrid wizard (mimed by Frederick Ashton), but the Firebird returned and forced the whole evil crew to dance on and on to exhaustion. Then the hunter smashed the giant egg that contained the wizard's soul and married the beautiful princess. Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rare Bird | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...ships' wheels laced with flowers. As the guest of honor, a smiling widow from Britain, entered a mean little square, she looked into the eyes of a blown-up photograph of her husband bearing the inscription: "To the Holy Virgin we pray: for us, many sardines; for the wizard who gave us penicillin, glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Good Wizard | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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