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...Brag, No Bluff. The unhappy fact, reported Professor Ernest D. Engel, a university student-placement adviser, is that "companies are not competing for the graduates." Guest Speaker George Corn-stock, Seattle neon-sign manufacturer, agreed. "Business conditions," said he, "are still at a high level." But industries "are tightening up . . . weeding out the misfits and incompetents . . . Job opportunities are still here, but you'll have to beat the bushes more efficiently and thoroughly than last year's graduates." Thereupon, he took up the problem of just what the efficient bushbeater should...
...Lemuel Ayers) was 1948's last new show, and by far its best musical. It is only a musical, and not, like Oklahoma!, a milestone as well. But if nothing about it is revolutionary, everything is right. Full-blooded and sassy and enormously gay, Kiss Me, Kate can brag about its music at least, without blushing for its book; it looks pretty, moves fast, is full of bright ideas and likable people...
...This is a great world," cried Robert Baxter, "and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." This bit of bragging, down to the last note in its descending scale, was a fairly faithful expression of the exuberance and confidence of businessmen in 1948. They thought that the U.S. had plenty to brag about; it had poured forth the greatest flow of goods and services in history. It was the first...
...public to come in after the last show and spend the night cooling off in upholstered seats. The wine steward of Washington's Mayflower Hotel noted a 300% increase in the sale of mint juleps and Tom Collinses. The Bluefield, W.Va. Chamber of Commerce, which likes to brag about its town's cool summer weather, did its best to compensate for the 92° weather by serving free lemonade...
...Black Queen. The queen of this new fleet, a 48,000-ton superliner, will give U.S. Lines something to brag about. Designed by Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, No. 1 ship architects for the Navy, the ship has a high pressure steam power plant similar to that used in World War II's destroyers and cruisers. Though smaller than prewar liner plants, it is much more efficient, and will give the superliner a top speed of over 33 knots, enough to bring the transatlantic record to the U.S. for the first time. Though the ship will have little more...