Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harried undergraduates will also be glad to learn that the academic calendar, which has been slowly readapting itself to a peacetime college, will, by June 1949, find itself back to normal. College opens on September 27, fall term exams run until February 4, and the last student will not finish spring finals until June...
Jaundiced View. Kalmus' ambition is to have all A films made in Technicolor. The biggest obstacle at present is his own company; it needs six months to get out color prints and moviemakers hate to wait that long. Otherwise, most moviemakers would probably be glad to make all their A pictures in Technicolor. The Government takes a different view. As owner of the onetime German company, General Aniline & Film Corp., the Government has a three-color process of its own. It claimed that Technicolor deals with moviemakers - and others - were making it hard to market General Aniline...
With a doubtful constituency at stake, Tories pulled out all the stops. Their candidate was young, chubby, glad-handing Frederic Walter Harris, a successful businessman (food products). His slogan: 'The thing to do to industry is to humanize it, not nationalize it." He kept the number of his own employees down to 700; above that figure he felt that the human touch was lost...
Secondly, Mr. Bracken told us how we should be glad to have a Thomas committee which "protects our civil liberties." I assume he was speaking of the recent smear of Karl T. Compton before they presented any valid evidence, and then denied him the opportunity to appear in his own defense. I think that well-informed Mr. Bracken would call that "100% Americanism in action." Stewart D. Kranz...
...many a Hearst town, legmen sought out and gave reams of space to obscure insurance men and lawyers who had founded unobtrusive "Mac-for-President" clubs months ago. Boston's Mayor Curley, glad to do a favor for the Record and the American, endorsed MacArthur - as a Democratic candidate. When opposition newsmen called him to check it, Curley laughed that he'd been "just kidding with the reporters." On second thought he said, "No, let the statement stand...