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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene is set at the French embassy in London. The ambassador is away, and his seven-year-old son Felipe is living there in care of the butler, Baines, and his wife. Thanks to the skillful acting and directing, one sees the whole first part of the film from Felipe's point of view: his idolization of Baines and their comradeship, the ceaseless tension between Baines and his paranoid wife, Baines' subsequent affair with one of the secretaries at the embassy...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: The Fallen Idol | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...smoker, featuring eider and doughnuts, will include a television broadcast of the football game. Dates will be invited, making this the first co-ed smoker in history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Plans Eli Smoker, Broader Program | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Moving the charging desk and stack entrance from the second to the first floor, merging the Union and Public Catalogues, and improving lighting and elevators are among possible changes. Such alterations would "improve the service and increase the efficiency of Widener," Metcalf stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener May Revise Plant, Director Says | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Bluestone, special student, member of the executive board of the Young Progressives, announced last night that the organization proposes three alternatives: First, that the University, under the guidance of President Conant, lead a concerted program involving other universities to demand the removal of the loyalty pledge for NROTC students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YP Demands Abolition Of NROTC Loyalty Oath | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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