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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alice Gerstenberg), a free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments of theater, might possibly-in this most uncritical of seasons-squeak through...
...sport will invade wartime Harvard Monday at 5 o'clock when men interested in playing the English game of rugby meet in front of Dillon Field House to begin practice...
Eighty-one experienced executives will take special courses at the Business School, and 11 newspapermen will begin their liberal arts studies as Nieman Fellows. The newspapermen will consider mainly the handling of postwar problems...
...Nothing precipitated and solidified this gold so readily as contact with human flesh heated by passion. The time that Wm. Abrahams was disappointed in love he used to step outdoors when the wind was blowing, and come in again and begin to sigh & sigh, and his brother and I would extract over $1.50 out of every sigh...
Cynical Leadership. "Irrespective of the abilities or motives of the individuals involved, such long continuance of power is hazardous to the perpetuation of free Government. . . . Power held so long breeds within itself abuses which will ultimately destroy a democratic society. Those who hold power too long begin to distrust the very source of their power; the people seem to them hopelessly ignorant. As a result, entrenched leadership becomes cynical and remote and it fails to take the people into its confidence...