Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confronting the Redbook committee which will be selected temporarily on the basis of past experience from the now resident members of the Class of '51 will be the job of choosing a class photographer, signing a contract with a printing concern and mapping out tentative layouts...
...which seems to have been doped out by two cynical script-writers over a short beer, is some worthwhile stuff. The photography is for the most part excellent, especially a scene of a biplane disintegrating in the air in a thunderstorm. In fact, the parts of the movie that concern the flying are all good. Howard Da Silva, playing the worried owner of the airlines, is natural and convincing. William Bendix takes over every scene in which he is, as a hedgehopping pilot and a friend of the family. One wishes that the movie had stuck to the flying story...
Tightening business conditions forced another concern to shut up shop last Thursday when The Eliot House Grill closed its door for the summer because of the dearth of patrons. Famous as the home of the best hamburger in the University the Grill failed to attract enough lovers of the onion covered delicacy to show a coupon profit...
...next day Evita, usually tardy, was ready ahead of time, dressed appropriately in ankle-length black dress and long black cape, for her audience with Pope Pius XII. The Pope talked to her for exactly the customary 30 minutes, had kind words for her husband's concern for Argentine underprivileged, his aid to war-torn countries of Europe, his contributions to papal charities. At interview's end, the Pope gave her a handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander...
...concern was not shared by another Government agency, WAA. For ten months Tucker has had a provisional lease on the Dodge plant, subject only to his ability to show WAA $15 million in cash on July 1, as proof that he was in a position to make cars. Tucker was unable to meet the deadline. WAA last week postponed the deadline to Nov. 1, the third such extension...