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Radcliffe will provide a snack bar and gift booth for the concert. Students will serve as workers and flower sellers...
...Flower of the Nation." To some nations, the results brought dismay. It had been Tom Dewey, after all, who had insisted on more help to the sagging government of China. "Next January," Chinese had told themselves, "will be the turning point." Last week, as Nanking read the bitter bulletins from Manchuria and the north (see FOREIGN NEWS), it received a depressing dispatch from Washington: "There is little reason to believe that President Truman's astonishing victory will affect greatly the Democratic administration's existing China policy...
...frankly reactionary and aggressive program?" Said Foreign Minister Molotov last week: Tom Dewey. And what did the U.S. elections mean? Said Molotov: "A majority of the Americans rejected this program." And what of the surprisingly small number of Americans who had voted for Henry Wallace? Said Moscow: "The flower of the nation. Each ... is worth more in moral authority . . . than 100 voting robots...
...Elizabethton, Tenn., enclosing one wilted daisy and a note: "In loving memory of our son, William Vane Campbell, killed Dec. 7 on ship U.S.S. Oklahoma." On Navy Day, a plane dropped the daisy over the spot where the Oklahoma sank. To Mrs. Campbell, the Navy sent a message: "Your flower has been delivered...
...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...