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...last February, Assistant Librarian of Motion Pictures Howard Lamarr Walls peered into an air-conditioned vault deep in the annex to Capitol Hill's most operatic piece of architecture. He saw thousands of rolls of paper: almost the entire output of U.S. motion-picture companies from 1897 to 1912. (Before 1912, he explains, motion pictures could not be copyrighted as such, and producers got around this by copyrighting their films, printed on paper, as photographs...
Burma's Judy. In Burma even more is being made of political appeals. Fortnight ago Burma's Puppet Premier Ba Maw visited Tokyo. He was entertained in an annex of Premier Tojo's official residence. He was taken to the Diet, given a banquet, interviewed. And then he was told by Premier Tojo that Japan had set up "the new independent State of Burma...
Back in the '80's some indifferent Yardster referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the "Harvard Annex," and that name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. Somehow Radcliffe never started; it just grew. One day in 1879 there were some girls getting instructed by Harvard teachers. After a while they were a college, and now that college is Radcliffe, and puts on plays with the HDC. In the intervening years poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...
Investigation shows that the Radcliffe girl is not quite so astonishing as she's built down to be. Teachers at Harvard and the "Annex" agree that there's more conscientious work across the Common, but less originality. Classroom reaction is slower, and a challenging bluebook slams a section man's ideas far less often. There's an old story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly...
President Ada Comstock chalked up what she thought was an another victory in the current Cambridge war between the sexes when she entertained Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday with a story of "the Radcliffe annex...