Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of drawing, students will be given a room preference card which must be returned to the Dean's Office with a $50 deposit by Thursday, April...
...third to a half on $160,000 worth of draperies. Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford, Alexander Smith, Mohawk and James Lees & Sons) cut prices from 10% to 20%. Thanks to such measures and a burst of fair weather and Easter buying, department store sales for the week ending April 2 were 8% above last year's. But the gain was too small to cause much cheering. The Federal Reserve Board gloomily observed that sales for the year would probably be down...
...Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty...
Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner short story; with some of the fastest and most realistic boxing scenes ever screened (TIME April...
...Fallen Idol. A handsome, British-made suspense film which is also a brilliant study of child behavior, with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...