Word: benefits
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...biggest aims of National Scholarships, Conant says, was to "present the advantages of Harvard in places where Harvard is not so obvious." This can lead to two kinds of results. First, it may interest many a new boy who can benefit from a Harvard education but who previously had never thought much about coming east. But, secondly, a strong geographical distribution injects a more varied and richer student body into the process of education...
Lesson for the U.S.: it is not enough to offer aid to backward peoples; the U.S. must also persuade their rulers to use the assistance for their countries' true benefit or find men who will cooperate with the U.S. That is a very difficult job, at which the U.S. so far has been notably unsuccessful; but unless it is done, and done well, U.S. plans for help to backward lands will be doomed to failure...
Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, who has always wanted to make his name as a dancer, got a chance to exhibit his fancy footwork. Taking a night off from his boxing tour of Europe, he won a unanimous decision tap-dancing for an appreciative audience at a theatrical benefit in Paris' Palais de Chaillot...
...Bust. Bouncing up & down the third-base coaching line, Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...
...Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...