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Within 100 years, says President James Bryant Conant of Harvard, science will have found a safe contraceptive that can be taken by mouth and the world will have a remedy for overpopulation. Last week British researchers reported an early lead in that direction. They had made an extract from a common countryside herb called gromwell (Lithospermum officinale) and given it first to female rats. The rats stopped ovulating. When the gromwell was stopped, they promptly resumed ovulating and proved, by becoming pregnant, that their fertility had been only temporarily arrested...
After a period of idleness which threatened to extend into 1953, the Brattle Theatre may be back in business. The theatre probably will open late this fall with Herman Levin's production of "The Temptation of Maggie Haggarty," according to Brattle's manager Bryant Holiday...
Despite the fact that many CRIMSON editors end up in some branch of the writing profession, the majority graduate to such positions as doctor, lawyer, businessmen, president of Harvard (James Bryant Conant '14) and president of the United States (Franklin D. Roosevelt '04). For those with literary aspirations who are more attracted to local magazines it is pointed out that for the past three years the CRIMSON has won the Dana Reed award for the best place of writing in an undergraduate publication...
With a fresh start, Brattle will probably not trip again. Benefitting from four years of mistakes, Bryant Haliday, Brattle's general manager, produced three plays this summer, profiting to the extent that the theatre did not lose money and the performers received adequate pay. Now the going will be easier, since the City of Cambridge has granted Brattle a liquor license. This will provide an extra source of revenue, as it has for the Boston Symphony...
Four years of heavy loss have put the company deep in the red. Besides this director Albert Marre has resigned, taking with him Jan Farrand, his wife and the Brattle's leading actress. According to the theatre's general manager, Bryant Haliday, Brattle will attempt to raise the money and find the actors to start production in January, but Holiday is not very optimistic about the Brattle's chances. And meanwhile the theatre on Brattle Street is now up for sale...