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...assistant deans are in charge of the School of Public Health until the Corporation appoints a new Dean to replace Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, who died of a heart attack this summer...
...Committee, headed by Senators Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) and Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.), urged yesterday that the Senate formally censure McCarthy for his "contemptuous, contumacious, and denunciatory" treatment of a previous committee's investigations of his actions and his "reprehensible treatment" of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker last December...
University officials pointed out that a letter from the FBI to Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughn implicating Halperin in communist activities was not available when they considered the professor's case last June...
...when hardly anything happens. Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention between Ladd and Mason is provided...
...secret code name), has the run of the ship. The contented crew has already pitched in $6,000 for the March of Dimes. Ramsey's proudest boast, as his ship weighed anchor for California: during the entire nine-month s cruise, he never had a man in the brig; instead, the brig was used for the storage of dishes and galley supplies...