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...ancient, leaky, 1,814-ton Chesapeake Bay excursion boat, once known as the President Warfield but now grimly called Exodus 1947, last week unsteadily approached the Palestine coast. The Zionist flag flew at her mast, and 4,554 refugees-the largest number that ever tried to run the British blockade at one time-jammed her holds. The refugees knew that the British Navy's destroyers patrolled the coast; but perhaps they hoped that the presence of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) would embarrass the British sufficiently to let the Exodus slip...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
Also on the program is a very cogent and provocative "March of Time." Entitled "The Teacher's Crisis," it molds the usual facts, figures, speeches, and dramatic incidents into an unusually good documentary, portraying with unique clarity the malignant growth of trends such as the exodus of underpaid teachers from the profession and the slackening of registration in teachers' colleges. President Conant winds up the "March of Time" with a short speech, and is followed by Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse, and Pete Smith, and at least one other comical feature. This procession of humor is overpowering: all but ardent...
...noon today, Cambridge will be as quite as Dean Duhig's waiting room-and the mass exodus will be completed. The stagecoaches, mule teams, kiddie cars, atomic bombs, and shiny new Studebakers will have disappeared, and five thousand overworked undergraduates will be on their spring vacations...
Local citizens noted the exodus with approval, especially one S. Sigmund Hickenlooper '14, brakeman for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, who said he was looking forward to the revival of his favorite outdoor sport...