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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...content of the projected films. The studio which, before Schary, had rarely put into its pictures anything more controversial than Lassie and Ma Hardy's apple pies, was now courting social themes: Intruder in the Dust (about the Negro problem); Border Incident (about Mexican laborers who enter the U.S. illegally); an antitotalitarian story; a script about an American Indian (Robert Taylor) trying to adapt himself to modern society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Skies | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Fighting O'Flynn (Fairbanks; Universal-International) allows Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to make good use of a reliable family formula: never enter a room through a door if you can vault through the window, never pick a fight with one man if you can take on a squad. In a cheerfully outrageous tale of a Napoleonic plot to invade Ireland, Fairbanks makes his entrance with tongue in cheek. In the end, he almost swallows it to keep from laughing at his own exaggerated heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...more than just an executive council. It can take a broader interest in freshman affairs, and make excursions into the area of policy. More than this, however, the new style in the Yard can successfully introduce first-year men to the ways and means of democratic organization when they enter the College. Freshmen can handle their affairs while they are freshmen-and not have to wait a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter for the Yard | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

...June 4, the Commissioner Began to lay down his own concept of reformatory work to Dr. Van Waters. He sent her a number of directives that severely cut into her rehabilitation program. Dwyer complained that new inmates shouldn't be told they are "students" when they enter. That was falsifying their legal status, he said. According to the McDowell Dwyer concept, inmates were prisoners, and must be treated accordingly. That meant no special treatment of special cases (which to Dwyer looked like favoritism) and no liberal graduation of inmates back into society (which looked like dangerous laxity regarding "hardened criminals...

Author: By David II. Wright, | Title: Six-Month Fight Ends In Van Waters Ouster | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

Freshmen who want to enter these sports should register with their Hall athletic managers before Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fancy Turns to Spring Intramurals | 2/15/1949 | See Source »

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