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...have imagined several years ago. In fact, a comparison of the seven years following World War 1, when glibness and myopia swept the country, and the years since 1945, when the only reminder of the bad old days is the Scnate's nortorious Class of '46, adds a shinier gloss to what few blessings there...
There is more to that gloss than the sort of shoe polish applied during the twenties under the name of Normaley. And despite the uncertainties and vigorous predictions of doom hatched by a limited war, this glimmer gives a liberal education more meaning and purpose. At least, those who spend four years here studying, seeking agreement on broad issues without resort to staves or oratorical orgies, can take hope from it that the wall separating them from the world at large is not so thick as it seems...
...from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Delmar Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore years for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and gained a degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a gloss on cloth. Next he tried selling Addressograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and the Business School...
...looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...
...adores him as one without gloss or gurle...