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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprisingly enough, Columbia satisfies these expectations. Its football team is "'big-time," as Stadium-goers will see this afternoon. And educationally, Columbia has always been a leader. In recent years, it pioneered the move away from the free elective system and substituted instead a course of study that anticipated much of Harvard's General Education program by about 30 years...
...will be free a year from...
...speech on inflation in San Francisco last Saturday. A major part of it was an outline of six "steps" that would beat inflation. Most of them are about bringing "able and honest people to Washington, "men and women of integrity", or about "vigorously supporting our American system of free opportunity." I've pondered on those steps awhile, and I don't think they mean much, in or out of context. But then again, you know what my mother says...
...offered by the Puerto Rican government looked too good to turn down. Hot after new industries, Puerto Rico will build him six plants for $6,000,000, sell them to his Puerto Rican subsidiary for $500,000 down and let him pay off the rest out of profits, tax free for twelve years. Another incentive was Puerto Rican labor at 25? to 75? an hour as against $.90 to $1.30 in Nashua...
...Touch of Venus (Universal-International) is a free movie translation of the sprightly Broadway musical written by Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman* (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). When a pretty statue (Ava Gardner) is imported into a department store as a publicity stunt, a kiss from a shy window decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl...