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...Bishop need not blush for youth's pained surprise when it hears this moral monster, or expect an era of free love to be ushered in. Students of college age no longer have to go back of the barn to whisper the facts of life. His is a naive, almost insulting, estimate of the moral fibre of youth. Extended the hospitality of C.C.N.Y., and due to give twelve guest lectures at Harvard next year, Mr. Russell will offer his many hearers a glimpse of a trenchant mind, and a taste of new knowledge. And medieval blasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRUNES AND PRISMS | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair ball. Each of the young men, fine apple-cheeked lads mostly and quick to blush, was given a Leap-Year favor which he had to decide on the spot to wear either red side out or green side out. On the red side was lettered, "Stop. Do not propose." On the green, "Go ahead, you may propose." After no end of gay squealing and innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Instead of Feathers | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Regardless of the Lampoon's idea of "success," anyone who can whoop up the front pages of "Life," "Look," and "Pic," anyone who can make a publicity photo curl up and blush like she can must be a success at something. The question is, at what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN RE OOMPH ET AL | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

Although they agree completely and entirely on the end to be achieved--higher education for able young people from all economic classes--Jim and Aubrey differ, at least at first blush, about the type of scholarship aid which should be provided for the able but needy. Youth Administrator Williams asserts that the student who works to earn some of the costs of his education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SING FOR YOUR SUPPER | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

From long experience, audiences know at first blush that the high-minded young man with whom Clerk Klara Novak (Mar garet Sullavan) is corresponding through a lonely-hearts hookup is her detested fellow clerk, Kralik (James Stewart). They also know that Hugo Matuschek is all wrong in suspecting Kralik of mis conduct with Mrs. Matuschek. The culprit, as everybody else can see, is oily Clerk Vadas. The outcome is equally certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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