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...Deep Blue Sea (by Terence Rattigan) has seldom given off a fishier smell. Rattigan has tackled a grim moment in a woman's life, and has striven manfully to make a big afternoon of it for large audiences of other, less unfortunate women. Margaret Sullavan has returned to Broadway to play the bedeviled lady who twice turns on the gas, but who has no better luck at dying than (until the last few minutes) at making a go of life...
...harder he works the fishier the old case gets. He comes to believe in the prisoner's innocence. Before he knows it, he has much of Chicago's population with him and the whole of Chicago's police force against him. He has to steal evidence from the hostile cops, track down a reluctant witness through some wonderfully sinister slums, and finally win his argument in a well-contrived photofinish...
...booklet called "Deadline," crammed with the pro-Benson opinions their papers did not want. First edition ran to 100,000 copies. Excerpts: "We've written about Gov. Elmer Benson for two years. We know he is going forward. . . . The Red menace was a red herring. And smelled even fishier...
...hope this meeting may be the first of a series of meetings to be addressed by men who have actually been in Russia--both pro and anti-Soviet. For as students we want the facts. ROBERT WORMSER '22 JOHN ROTHSCHILD, Occ. JOSEPH TURKEL '21 HAROLD M. FLEMING '20 ARTHUR FISHIER...