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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Male support is consistently top-level. Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart, as the crippled brother and manager of the champion, make perfect foils for Douglas. Their humaneness and concern are in sharp contrast with his simple-minded machine destruction; their relative smallness, in spite of their warmth, shows all the more his brutal greatness...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...rioting and knows, "with a terrified shame, that he had been waiting for this to happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only at the cost of moral health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guilt-Edged Confusion | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Schwartz expressed concern (through the medium of the release) over the tackle, guard, and fullback spots. Apparently De Young's neat average is marred by youth or inexperience or some other unannounced shortcoming. At tackle, the two starters are back; "Reserves, reserves," means Schwartz. There are only two lettermen at the guard slots, one of whom was a starter in 1948. However, two squad members and four freshmen might help out a little here; and as for substitute tackles, there are four freshmen and three asserted varsity players scrapping for the chance to back up their friends in those positions...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...elders wrote for idle souls, but for the public which we, in our turn, were going to address, the vacation was over. It was composed of men of our sort who, like us, were expecting war and death. For these readers without leisure, occupied without respite with a single concern, there was only one fitting subject . . . their war and their death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond Ennui | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...woman expressed concern about student drinking orgies in the union. "They come in here for breakfast," she said, "drink four glasses of milk, six of juice, and then mix in a couple of cups of coffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Freshmen Slobs, Others Real Gentlemen According to Union Gals | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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