Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Van Zandt sighted squarely in on the long-cigar-shaped silhouette of Con-solidated's six-engined B-36, backbone of the Air Force's strategic bombing force. Since Louis Johnson sank the Navy's supercarrier six weeks ago (TIME, May 2), and with it the Navy's hopes for a piece of the Air Force's long-range bombing mission, the Navy has stepped up its attacks on the ability of the B-36 to carry out its mission. Armed with a secret and rambling, anonymous memo which had been prepared...
...current Advocate, "War Trial: Malmedy," seems strangely out of place in what is by rights a literary magazine. It is of topical interest, fitting in with what seems to be the Advocate trend started with "The Jew at Harvard" and continued last month by "The Club System: Pro and Con," but one wonders where this going afield on the part of the Advocate editors will lead...
Average weight (excluding con) 183, Average height (excluding...
...Advocate is without a doubt heading in the right direction. In last month's issue, the editors attempted to deal with "The Jew at Harvard"; now, in the April issue, they present a pre-and-con discussion of the Club System. Both topics are serious and important ones, and it is a pity that the handling in each case has been so inadequate...
...Club System Con" is hardly more enlightening. The writer (also anonymous) seems casual and tired of it all even at the beginning. He dallies with a few truisms (that the New England aristocracy isn't much of an aristocracy, and that much of Harvard's "apathy" is the fault of the Clubs), but his case is confused, contradictory in places, and concludes bitterly by comparing the System to "a roach on the wall...