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...Reading Theatre promises to provide a long-awaited filler for this void, but its success demands more interest from without and more organization from within than was displayed yesterday in the Fogg Large Lecture Room. Friedman's play, victim of last-minute cutting and the resulting confusion of the actors, was hardly seen in a fair light. And the people present watched more with the attitude of a small band of die-hards than that of an audience...
...others, accepting the credits means a further shortening of an education that has come to mean little more than a prescribed number of course credits. Members of the ROTC and NROTC programs are especially affected, since as many as five or six of their courses are little more than filler. Candidates for honors, equally hard hit by the ruling of the Administrative Board that war service credits must be accepted, are returning to college to find that concentration requirements, divisional examinations and honors theses must all be hurdled within the one or two remaining terms allotted them by the University...
...their early 20's. The substitution of recruiting for the draft will not remove the objections to an adolescent occupation force. If the volunteers are to be men over 21, they will still be eligible for recruiting while the drafting of teen-agers will provide a flexible gap-filler to insure adequate manpower. If a sufficient number of men volunteer, induction quotas can always...
Caspar Milquetoast is the only character Cartoonist Webster has ever given a name to-and Caspar,* with appropriate shyness, sneaked into the strip as a space filler. The rest of Webster's bald-headed bores, thin, puzzled wives, and freckle-faced kids need no name; they are, when they hit the mark-as they often do-Everyman...
Jack Haley, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard get mixed up with a Dude Ranch and try to make the place a financial success. Amid bucking bronchos and strutting cowgirls, Haley and his hapless friends go through the usual routine of a grade B filler, avoiding new twists and good jokes like the plague...