Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social side a formal dance is scheduled for next Friday evening in the Common Room of the Union, featuring the music of Harry Marshand with Ruth Owens as vocalist. Dark suits or tuxedos are optional, with a room and attendant provided to allow girls to change into long dresses. Ticket sales have been proceeding at a rapid rate and the Dance Committee expects a sellout. Weekly record dances will also be sponsored by the committee. Profits from the Inaugural Ball will be used for this purpose...
...managing editors, John Shaw Billings and Daniel Longwell, saw LIFE through its first decade. Entering its second, it will have a new managing editor, dark-haired, sad-visaged Harvardman Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., the first man to join Longwell's experimental staff in 1936. At 33, Thorndike says he "is regarded by most people as a taciturn New England type, although by Massachusetts standards [I am] jovial and loquacious...
...small-time promoter with big ideas of making autos in the Chicago plant. He had agreed in September to lease it from the War Assets Administration. But NHA had ordered the plant to go to Lustron. In a frantic effort to block this, Tucker came up with a dark tale. His story: a lawyer approached him, just before the National Housing Administration ordered the plant turned over to Lustron, and promised to block the deal if Tucker 1) gave him $400,000 in stock in his company and 2) hired him at $36,000 a year. When Tucker turned down...
...Dark the Night (Columbia) is a low-budget whodunit that almost succeeds in making the big time. In spite of a wobbly script and a cast of unknown players, Director Joseph H. Lewis has turned out a neat little job. It is more entertaining than most of the better-advertised movies it will get paired with on double-feature bills...
Moving at a leisurely pace that makes its sensationalism even more feverish, the plot of So Dark the Night lets young love struggle against middle-aged wealth, throws in a couple of violent murders, winds up in a fanfare of abnormal psychology. It just goes to show that thoughtful direction and handsome camera work can lift a mediocre movie a long way above its humble beginnings...