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...falling banner of filmdom was grasped after the opening gun by Ronald Reagan, father of two, who snapped back, "If the professor could be persuaded to leave the cloistered halls where intellectual inbreeding substitutes for the 'synthetic' life of Hollywood, I believe that we could show him that the people in the studios are a pretty good cross section of American life, no better, no worse...
What the Clowns Think. Obviously, the people of Russia, who are remarkably like people everywhere, would rather improve this sorry picture than carry the Marxist banner to distant lands. Stalin & Co., in spite of their enormous foreign and military commitments, have been trying desperately since the war ended to ease the shortages. They have had some success. A walk around Moscow last week showed Russians better dressed than last year, more toys and cooking utensils in shop windows and, in some sections, lights gleaming in rooms which last year were only hollow shells of construction interrupted...
...fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise his rates ($10 monthly for papers under 10,000 circ.). In his growing string he is proudest of the Cambridge (Md.) Banner, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, presumably because he thinks they are proud of him. Says Dadswell: "If the President of the United States walked into their offices and told them they could not run my column, they would tell him to go to hell...
...little Blue flag has gone astray . . . and Daniel P. S. Paul '46 wants it returned immediately by the pranksters who "borrowed" it--a huge Eli banner--from Memorial Hall. "It was loaned to us by the Yale Corporation as decoration for the Law School dance," explained Paul. "If it's returned to Wigglesworth A-22 or to Phillips Brooks House, the Law School won't prosecute...
...another nation's high blood pressure." But having there stumbled within grappling distance of the world problem, shy, melancholy Author White characteristically sideslips and waves his wild flag modestly from another corner of the lot: "Somebody, we thought, should seize the halyard and run up a token banner to symbolize the world community, even if it were only a pair of scanties...