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...this before!" exclaimed one startled dowager. And she was not alone. Before the curtain was down on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's passionate masterpiece last week, there was many another exclamation; some were snorts from traditionalists, but most of them were something like "Wow!" The New York Journal-American's headline summed it up: JUST SHORT OF SENSATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alley-Cat Carmen | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...member of Stanford's winning 1941 Rose Bowl team, All-America Guard Chuck Taylor was one of the Indians' "Wow" boys.* Now, in his first year as a coach, burly (204 Ibs., 5 ft. n4r in.) Chuck Taylor has a winning Stanford team of his own: the "How" boys. The question in the minds of the sportwriters who nicknamed the team: How do they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanford's How Boys | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...wow known as the Intro-Fraternity Council, tribe leaders recently vetoed a scheme to steal into Dillon and paint all the footballs green. But the group has tentatively decided to sail up the Charles in canoes before the game tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Take Warpath En Route to Charles, Pitch Tepees Tonight | 10/26/1951 | See Source »

...Cambridge University, England, and a veteran of service with the Royal Navy, decided he would see the most interesting part of the United States standing by roadsides with his thumb up on route from Boston to Los Angeles. This letter, written on the eve of the All-Indian Pow-wow from a hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizons, records some of the impressions of a Public School Britisher confronting P. J. Booster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Magdalene to Main Street | 7/12/1951 | See Source »

...stand on a street corner and watch Americans on the move: hunched behind the wheel, zooming off the mark, not a split second lost. Walking fast, self-assured, purposeful, well-fed, healthy. WOW, what a people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Rip, Away 13 Years, Finds America Escaped Painful Changes | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

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