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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jumbos never had a chance. For three periods at the Arena last night, the varsity hockey team hardly extended itself, yet it outclassed Tufts every foot of the way. In the end Harvard skated off with a 9 to 12 triumph its third win in three starts...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Hockey Team Outplays Tufts, 9-2 | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...freshmen, while not yet polished are a high scoring outfit, and the Eaglets will have to come up with a lot more fight and better team play than Tufts or BU if they expect to snap the Yardlings' modest win streak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Yard Cagers Battle BC At Garden Today | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Seldom has a melodrama flashed so many tricks of the trade-pianos, radios, telephones, striking clocks, blinking lights, swinging doors, even false statements in the program. Yet The Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

There is a little band of men around this university engaged in a sinister occupation. We don't know who they are yet, but take it from us, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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