Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire organizational set-up is clated for reconsisderation this fall, in addition to a brief drive to swell existing funds...
...living in a cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would be dandy: she "would find no difficulty in making a living in this country, since she is a competent farmer...
British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank was probably wishing that his gifted director, David (Brief Encounter) Lean, had not been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...
...reception for officers of the college and graduate students in Longfellow Hall and lunch at the Applan Way graduate house followed President Jordan's address and benediction. Annex undergraduates remained in the church for brief talks by Deans Wilma A. Kerby-Miller and Mildred F. Sherman, and for an address by Joan Projansky '49, president of the Student Government Association...
...Dean's office last spring prevented the New Student, published by the HYD, from using the Harvard name and banned intra-University selling of the magazine, the Student Council held hearings on the matter. The HYRC was the only organization which testified in favor of the ban. Despite their brief, the Council recommended that the Faculty reverse its decision on the matter. This request was rejected...