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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY--Major Track H--Huna Rosenfeld; Minor Track H--Raymond E. Brown, John F. Cogan, Jr., David L. Groshong, Captain Franklin L. Gurley, Harold L. May, Peter P. Morgan, Thomas H. Walnut, Jr., Peter O. Ways, Charles E. Worth, and Manager Bradford Perkins...
...Guild strike against Hearst's Los Angeles evening Herald & Express for about the same terms demanded of J. David Stern ended after 83 days. The Guild had asked for a 40% pay boost, settled for 14%. Cried the Herald & Express in a front-page editorial: "It was a senseless strike . . . the workers lost money, the newspaper lost money . . . the public of Southern California was deprived of its greatest daily newspaper...
...husband, child and father are killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
Almost silent, on both sides of the water, were the essayists and belles-lettrists: Lord David Cecil's monograph, Thomas Hardy, was intelligent and informative, but not in a class with Cecil's The Young Melbourne. Two books by George Orwell-Animal Farm, a penetrating satire on Soviet dictatorship, and Dickens, Dali and Others, a collection of essays-introduced many Americans to a vigorous British critic who observes life and literature with an eye that is usually more sharp than bloodshot...
...Mostly by Dr. Walter Lowrie and the University of Minnesota's late Professor David F. Swenson. * Modern "existentialists," like Sartre and Camus, have kidnapped Kierkegaard's "absurdity," stripped it of all religious significance, and beaten it into insensibility, using it merely as a dummy to dramatize what they consider the futility of any way of life...