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...popular Irishman in the U.S., arrived in New York with a full schedule before him. He had accepted with pleasure an invitation to the celebrations of both San Francisco and Los Angeles on St. Patrick's Day, would also attend the annual St. Patrick's Day banquet of Chicago's Irish Fellowship Club, postponed until March 20 so that he would be able to make...
Above the hum of eulogy and the clank of banquet silverware, two Republican voices sounded most clearly.* One was Governor Tom Dewey's. In Boston, in a speech on foreign policy, he laid low once & for all the charge that he is unwilling to take a stand on crucial campaign issues. He endorsed the Marshall Plan to the "full sum which has been requested," called for internationalization of the Ruhr and the immediate economic unity of Europe. He also blasted the Democrats for "the policies which resulted in surrendering 200 million people in Middle Europe into the clutches...
...actor who is celebrating his 28th year in movies. In all its blends and alternations of darkness & light and of classical, romantic and modern styles, the part is an actor's dream. Colman sits down to it as a veteran gourmet might sit down to the banquet of a lifetime, and polishes it off, savoring every last morsel, straight through to the crumbs on the tablecloth. His performance is a pleasure in itself, but the real delight is to watch his delight in his job. Colman is not a great actor, but he gives an arresting demonstration of what...
...Hunters and the Hunted is a quiet book of comment on art and literature and history and birds-on whatever comes to Sacheverell Sitwell's well-stocked mind, in this winter of the spirit, that summons up recollections of richer creative times. It is an intellectual banquet like one of those he describes at the court of Constantine, where the dessert was brought in three chariots and raised to the table by ropes which descended from a ceiling of golden foliage...
Vannevar Bush, director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, and J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, will give guest speeches at the banquet, while President Conant will outline the development of science since the creation of the Lawrence Scientific School spurred laboratory research and teaching in the United States...