Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accoridng to the scheduling drawn up at the Biltmore Hotel convention, Cambridge will not see a Heptagonal track or cross-country meet until at least 1951. This spring's track meet will be in Philadelphia's Franklin Field, the 1949 cross-country run in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, and the 1950 track meet at Yale...
...been done than the rating of Warren G. Harding as a failure in the presidency by the 55 "authorities" of Professor Schlesinger [TIME, Nov. 8]. If service to the people who elected them is the criterion, then Harding ranks far above the two 20th Century "greats" [Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt] who allowed this nation to be plunged into two World Wars and then saddled us with a mountain of debt...
...Japanese offered Chiang peace terms a dozen times; he never accepted. For Chiang's constancy, there was one notable acknowledgment: at Cairo in 1943, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised the Generalissimo to crush Japan and restore all Chinese territory lost in half a century of struggle with the Japanese. Formally, China became one of the "Big Five." When the war ended, China drew a long breath and turned to reconstruction. The spearhead of Chiang's planned reconstruction of China was Manchuria, with its coal and iron and factories. At the last moment, it was snatched from China...
Beginning in the early 1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt assured the U.S. that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and ending in 1945 with General Douglas MacArthur's acceptance of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, the album preserves historic high spots of the years between. Here is Britain's Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville...
...guiding hand of the author probably also had a great deal to do with the fine acting, especially that of Hugh Franklin and Polly Rowles, as the father and mother. Their performances could hardly be improved upon. Mr. Franklin has been consistently creditable in all three plays, but this is the first time Miss Rowles has seemed satisfactorily cast. Joseph Foley is outstanding as the elder son and the Practical Man. His performance stands out way above the play itself...