Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...topic was: "Resolved: That a comprehensive federal civil rights program should be adopted." Cornell debaters George Baroody and William Vanden Houvel argued the negative and won a two to one victory over Melvin L. Zurier '50 and K. Bruce Friedman '50, who represented the Crimson in the affirmative...
...Bruce Friedman '50 and Dan Pierce '49, arguing the affirmative for Harvard, contended that a civil rights act was necessary from a moral point of view. They asserted that in allowing discrimination on racial and religious grounds to exist, the United States left itself wide open for criticism of its form of democracy...
...United States will risk more by staying out of the proposed North Atlantic Pact, now under an air of secrecy in Washington, than it would by joining, government Professor Bruce Hopper said in a speech before the Massachusetts League of women Voters at Radcliffe last night...
Veteran Adman Bruce Barton had figured out a sure-shot means of cracking the Iron Curtain: bombard Russia with Sears Roebuck catalogues. "If that day ever comes," he told a San Francisco salesmen's convention, "we will not need any longer to fear Communism. No ordinary Russian ever suspected such a wealth of wonderful and desirable objects exists anywhere in the world as the Sears catalogue presents...
...just brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way of joking is as familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...