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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times with most gracious hospitality of the Americans and with their warm, friendly interest in our country and the work we were doing. The photograph which you have published recently is one more proof of this interest and we are most appreciative of it. We would like, however, to add a few words of comment and to explain that we are not "just ourselves," as your caption seems to imply, but represent the Polish women who had taken part in this war alongside of their men ever since Sept...
...counted upon to denounce relentlessly-the housefly, the common cold, the man-eating shark-Washington's Senator Homer Bone in 1937 added cancer. When he introduced a bill for a National Cancer Institute, it bore the sponsoring signatures of 94 Senators. (The other two hastened to add theirs before the bill came to a vote.) Last fortnight Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark hit on something which politicians almost as unanimously favor. He introduced a veterans' benefits bill, jointly sponsored by 80 other Senators. Last week, amid plaints by the remaining 15 Senators that they...
Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo-born brunette (see cut), was rescued from potential "life service" to Warner Bros. by a Superior Court in Los Angeles. In a ruling which the Motion Picture Daily called "precedent-establishing," the judge declared that to add the accumulated lost time of her seven suspensions to the seven calendar years of her contract "would amount to virtual peonage." Warner Bros. declared that it had just begun to fight...
...Army on occasion has been ruthless in its weeding out of failures in the higher echelons-many generals (but no admirals) have been quietly broken. Lower echelons are harder to get at among the millions of men now in the services. But Critic Baldwin's statements did add up to a sound criticism of the Army personnel machine, and of a U.S. deficiency in martial spirit...
Initiated over a year ago, the Radio Rough House proved to be a huge success with both students and faculty alike. Besides the dancing and refreshments to add to the festive spirit of the occasion, each Radio Rough House has been highlighted by a show presented by the members of the staff for the student body. This time, the original "Slide Rule Symphony," which practically "tore down the house" when it was first presented last year and has never failed to leave its audience in other than an hysteric frame of mind, is expected to repeat its past performances...