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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
...ways by which the freedom of the papers is being suppressed is through administrative use of the purse-strings. In colleges where the paper is supported by the University, authorities can cut off money if the paper does not express their views. Also, several papers have faculty advisors who must check everything through before it goes...
...room has had a long and varied history. Designed for the express purpose of playing either pool or billiards, the room has its tables arranged far enough away from the windows so as to render harmless any change in temperature that might affect the cloth on the tables or the ivory billiard balls...
...plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily in the luxurious Andalusia Palace Hotel, onetime Mecca of wealthy tourists who used to pack-jam Seville each year...
Pound has never minced words about Milton. He dislikes the Puritan epicist for "his asinine bigotry, his beastly hebraism, the coarseness of his mentality." Says Smith, "Mr. Eliot is far too urbane to express his disapproval in such Miltonic terms," but he too carries on a "deft, inconspicuous sniping," has mentioned Dryden as being "far below Shakespeare, and even below Milton." "Note," cries vigilant Defender Smith, "the tiny drop of poison in the phrase . . . 'even Milton...