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...cruelest month sweeps into Cambridge today as students sweep out. For some, April will mean long walks by the Charles; for others if will mean increased tearing of yellow parking tickets...
Nails & Coffins. NBC suffered the cruelest blow. Satins and Spurs got a Trendex rating of only 16.5 against a whopping 34.6 for the veteran CBS variety show Toast of the Town. What went wrong? One TVman thought that Satins was overpromoted: "NBC kept crowing about how much money they were spending, and that leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. They have mixed reactions to a network that can spend that much." Some viewers, curiously, seemed to resent the fact that the show was televised in color. Said a Long Island housewife: "I can't get color...
Woman's Cruelest Weapon. During the war, Kay got to Washington. Some of the things she saw there (orange juice and fresh vegetables) she liked. But other things she did not like. Some Army wives she met "left a bad taste in my memory." She was "hurt, then angered at the slander of WACs overseas . . . How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost...
...contemporary newsman reported that Daumier looked like one of his own cruelest caricatures, "but if one . . . tries to penetrate this bourgeois shell, the features soon brighten into life. That little eye with its heavy lid, half-closed in perpetual winking, thrusts at you its clear sharp look . . . even his nose seems to enjoy the observations he has just made...
...blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...