Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enfant Prodigue is now making its first appearance on an American stage in a very small and very stylish way. The problem of adapting Gide's story was not great, since it consists of nothing more than a series of dialogues, but the handling of the whole affair by director Edward Morris is exceptionally witty. The result--though scarcely more than a half hour long--is nice theater...
Brass, Beauty, Brains. In addition to collecting culture, Marx is frequently accused by competitors of "collecting" generals. Actually, he has known most of his brasshat friends since they were young officers. His love affair with the military started in the early '30s, when he was able to give a hard-to-get toy-train switch to the late Air Force General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, who was then a major at Bolling Field. Arnold introduced Marx to General Walter Bedell Smith, now vice chairman of the American Machine & Foundry board, who was then a captain. Said "Beedle" Smith recently...
None of these really explain the bare fact that the favored Crimson was never ahead. The score was tied 2-2 at the end of the first period, and most observers expected the varsity to pull ahead permanently early in the second. The period was instead a bogged-down affair with play alternately concentrated in each team's defensive zone...
They had forced a General Assembly debate on Algeria, but at the price of France's angry walkout from the Assembly-a price too great to pay for the barren pleasure of meddling in, but not easing, an essentially French internal affair...
...Mark Earle '59, chairman of this year's Union Committee, stated the need "to hold a 'blast-type' Smoker on an appropriate level, if necessary, in the dormitories." He added that, "This would cause the affair to lose its place as a class party...