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Radio & TV, which get almost daily insults from some direction, last week suffered two open assaults and one cryptic, underground attack...
Advocates of the Princeton honor code insist that it does not cause outbreaks of cheating. The fact that the honor system can be enforced is evident from the frequent cryptic announcements in the Daily Princetonian that "Mister X has left the College for disciplinary reasons...
...haunting treatment of an old theme--the marriage of opposites. "Saint-Germain-des-Pres," by Lyon Phelps, is entirely an evocation of atmosphere, and it succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...
...before the Economic Club in Manhattan rose Chairman Alan Valentine of the Economic Stabilization Agency. "Do we need drastic surgery such as general [price & wage] controls?" he asked. Professorial Dr. Valentine then gave himself a cryptic answer: "We shall soon know . . . as we observe a few test cases now under way in important fields." Valentine did not name the test cases, but it was a good bet that he was thinking about the steel industry, where a wage increase is sure to be followed by a price rise. Perhaps Dr. Valentine was trying to frighten other businessmen who had price...
...cryptic statement last week, Chaplin's office announced that U.A. had been sold. The buyer was a syndicate "of Eastern investors," whose front man was Paul V. McNutt, ex-U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and former chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Neither McNutt, Mary or Charlie would disclose the terms, but Hollywood gossip was that McNutt & friends: 1) had agreed to pay some $5,000,000 for the company; 2) hoped to produce films on their own; and 3) were dickering to hire independent Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer (see CINEMA) to boss production...