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...authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough to tell time or manage a knife & fork would see through Evelyn in two minutes flat...
...daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than his fingers...
...instructors in Business Administration: Allen B. Dickerman, of Auburn, N. Y., M.B.A. '41; Jack P. Gould, of Montebello, California, M.B.A. '41; Howard F. Hamacher, of Burns, Oregon, M.B.A. '39; and Clifford E. Young, Jr., of American Fork, Utah, M.B.A...
...Mountain best to voice the Vermont view. Said he: "Apparently the wearers of the old school tie still think war is a tea party for they want a $2,000 silver service on the cruiser Montpelier for which the citizens of Vermont's small capital . . . have got to fork out. If I were the Mayor of that city, I would send a wire saying 'To hell with...
...into a pressure group for their own beliefs: Harvard has had some particularly illuminating experience with pressure groups. They fall to pieces after a flashy start; they dissolve when their small aims are accomplished or when they despair of their big aims; or the members part at a political fork in the road. Definitely, the Post-War Council must avoid over-organization; it must preserve its balance and entertain all viewpoints. The second danger is that the flame of the idea will be confined to Harvard; that the committees will stop short of every state and endowed college from Boston...