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...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...
...magical qualities bordering on the occult. This number is most potent during the summer months. Turning zealous vacation workers into loafers, it makes honest students throw over well-paying jobs a good month before school would make them quit. The number is, of course, the sum a student may carn before he is no longer a deductable item on his guardian's income tax but becomes, himself, another prop to the national debt...
This odd movie is the work of Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carné, who made Children of Paradise (TIME, Nov. 25). Of its fairly unprecedented kind-it is a classical medieval romance on film-it is close to perfection. But it seems unlikely that many U.S. moviegoers will care for it as much as the French critics who voted it the best French film...
...R.A.F. pilot was shot down in Occupied France, taken in by a friendly abbess and dressed as a nun. After eight weeks playing the part of a model sister, he suddenly swept a beautiful young nun into his arms. " 'Old yer 'orses, carn't yer?" barked the nun. "I been 'ere since Dunkerque...
James M. Sampson '35, manager of the Harvard soccer team has donated a cup to be given to the winner of the league championship. Sampson, John F. Carn, Jr. '28, Varsity soccer coach, Henry W. Clark '23 of the H.A.A., were the Crimson representatives at the meeting. Clark, who is graduate manager of athletics, was appointed temporary chairman of the new league...