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...termites on the old seats in the second balcony was checked, and the ornate walls were repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few feet above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knockout punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

...Alpine Station. By week's end, with the Germans occupying Rome for the first time since the year 1527, with most of the Italian fleet in Allied hands, with Adriatic seaports in Allied possession, the whole complexion of World War II had suddenly changed enormously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Europe | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Last week the Board (its complexion having been altered by a change of membership) decided in effect that foremen were not Labor but Management. It ruled that, while foremen could organize, their unions could not claim the rights of collective bargaining given under the Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Who Is Management? | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Taking cognizance of the changing complexion of College life, and molding the Commencement procedure to meet the new needs imposed upon it, the University's graduation on May 27 will include ceremonies for Army and Navy students who will be graduating at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY, NAVY TO BE IN GRADUATION PROGRAM | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...General suddenly stopped his random pacing and walked over to the topographical map on the wall. There, on the curious, pudgy, hatted, east-facing profile that is Tunisia, he could at a glance see the complexion of his own battle and of the whole campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fight Against the Champ | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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