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HAVING announced early last week that it would turn to George Bernard Shaw's "The Doctor's Dilemma" for its third play of the season, the Phoenix Theatre is ready this morning to let you know that it isn't going to neglect Henrik Johan Ibsen either.
EASTON, Pa., Nov. 20 -- Pre-game form, which had Lehigh the 13-point favorite, was washed away on Fisher Field today by Lafayette and an almost constant rain as the Leopards overwhelmed their rivals, 46 -- 0, before 15,000 water-soaked spectators.
Fog delays flights
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 20 -- From a 7-7 standoff at halftime, Princeton stormed to a top-heavy, 49-7 victory over Dartmouth before 23,000 rain-soaked spectators at Palmer Stadium today. Charlie Caldwell's Tigers wound up the season with a spectacular five-touchdown fourth quarter, achieving the most points by one team in any of the thirty-four games in the rivalry that began in 1897.
AS further evidence of the maturity of the musical theatre, take the case of "Fanny." It has character. In Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak it also has two actors with style and personality. There is a profusion of routine showmanship in "Fanny," and some of it is distracting.
1954Fiona Pitt-Kethley, English journalist, author, and poet[†]
Fiona Pitt-Kethley is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist, who is the author of more than 20 books of both poetry and prose. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, and moved to Spain in 2002 with her husband James Plaskett and their son, Alexander.
1954People's Action Party, an eventual dominative political party in Singapore, was established.[†]
The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major conservative political party in Singapore and is the governing contemporary political party represented in the Parliament of Singapore, followed by the opposition Workers' Party (WP).
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]