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...Fort Wayne, Ind. 5. Milwaukee, Wis. 14. In a calmer mood, President Truman reluctantly invoked the Taft-Hartley law to end the costly strike which had closed down the nation's: 1.Copper mines...
...palm-slim waist as well as the effusive adulation belong to a green-eyed, reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...
...irony about Harvard's current problem of having to keep pace with its Ivy rivals in hunting nationally for applicants is that Harvard in the thirties was probably the first college to initiate such a policy. Admissions programs were then far calmer and more relaxed than they are today. In fact, President Conant's 1934 National Scholarship program was probably the biggest step ever taken up to that time by an eastern school to become a truly "national college." Alumni Scholarship Committees began multiplying in the West, where the early National Scholarships were concentrated...
...dissenters, Justices Black and Douglas, commented bitterly in separate opinions. Said Black: "Public opinion being what it now is, few will protest the conviction of these Communist petitioners. There is hope, however, that in calmer times . . . this or some later court will restore the first-amendment liberties to the high, preferred place where they belong in a free society . . . No matter how it is worded, this is a virulent form of prior censorship of speech and press...
From Manhattan, Actress Ella Raines angrily wired Hollywood cops to recover a set of patio chairs she said had been pinched by Actress Miriam Hopkins. Miss Hopkins promptly obliged with a calmer version of the story: "I borrowed the patio furniture for a party, and I was just being real neighborly, you know, like swapping rice pudding or something . . . She said some vicious things about me, but I don't want to say anything about Ella. She's a sweet little girl and I can't understand it ... I've never laughed more...