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Beethoven: Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 (Budapest Quartet; Columbia; 6 sides). One of the finest of Beethoven's early quartets, superbly performed and recorded...
Other educators than Presidents Conant of Harvard and Hutchins of Chicago were less pessimistic and critical in regarding the GI Bill of Rights. President Daniel L. Marsh, speaking at Boston University commencement exercises on Saturday, called the Bill "one of the finest and most constructive pieces of social legislation ever enacted by any government." He observed, further, that "the GI Bill offers opportunity to practically everyone in the armed service except the dishonorably discharged veteran." "How incomparably better it will be for veterans to turn to college pending the finding of jobs than to walk the streets or go into...
Despite sloppy ball handling and general lack of drive, the home team displayed improvement, in view of the opposing team's rating as one of the finest squads in New England. Mike Keene's effort, in a losing cause, was his best college performance to date...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had also been a symbol. In Britain's darkest and finest hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...
Barker Brothers Corp., one of the world's biggest house-furnishing stores, is admitted by its competitors to be the finest existing example of "The Los Angeles Spirit." This spirit is compact of two things which Southern Californians love: 1) a gaudy, glittery Hollywood veneer; 2) a loud, high-pressure sales technique. Barker's had shown this spirit so effectively that last week, despite the acute wartime shortages of furniture, the company said its 1944 gross would be $15,500,000, the highest since...