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...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim, Anne Baxter; TIME...
Williams President James Phinney Baxter III ('14) is chairman of a group of U.S. college presidents concerned with postwar reforms in liberal education. The group favors simplifying college-entrance requirements for war veterans; reducing the importance of lectures (since many postwar students will have had richer personal experience than many a college instructor); more use of primary source materials as against textbook boning; stress on teaching rather than on research work by faculty members; increased use of individual instruction methods...
...Paramount) is a somewhat belated dispatch from the Hollywood militarists on Rommel's North African campaign. Paramount's stand-in for the Nazi Desert Fox is the bald and brutal veteran, Erich von Stroheim. Pitted against his terrorism is the youthful team of Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. United, the wits of these two turn the entire tide of battle...
...shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead waiter who had been a Nazi agent. Brought before Rommel, he learns that he will be sent to Cairo for another undercover assignment. With a pretty French chambermaid called Mouche (Anne Baxter), he manages to decipher enough in Rommel's papers to locate five mysterious "graves" of buried German Army supplies on the road to Cairo. Then he starts east for Egypt-unaware that Mouche is about to fall before a German firing squad...
...James P. Baxter, 3rd, Joseph S. Graydon '98, and Charles C. Lund '16, were the three men elected vice-presidents of the organization. Dr. Baxter, president of Williams College, received an A. M. degree at Harvard in 1923 and a Ph.D. three years later...