Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anybody's guess whether Eton could keep its course steady in its sixth century as it had in its first five. True, two members of the Labor Cabinet (Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, Food Minister John Strachey) wear the black-&-blue old school tie, and are proud of it. So do six Labor and 57 other M.P.s, such left-wing literati as Cyril Connolly and George Orwell. But many a Briton was finding it hard last week to visualize Eton in a socialist future...
...many copies of each book are to be printed and where distributed. Reader demand by itself can no more create a best-seller in Russia than public tastes can alter the content of the food ration. But popular writers sometimes get spectacular receptions, which indicate that Glavlit can guess wrong. For example, a 15,000-copy printing of Valentin Kateyev's Son of the Regiment lasted just three hours in Moscow bookshops...
...celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator had to reach over the table and grab her by the arms to make her shut up. She sheepishly admitted: "I guess I am getting old and can't stop talking...
...service in dollars. Tariffs could be lowered and U.S. businessmen could send capital abroad in the form of foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year's end and the present boom in U.S. foreign trade may melt away overnight...
...surprises of the season if it had lived up to the best that is in it. As it stands, it is an uneven but unexpectedly engaging musical, featuring some nice, attractive people (notably Eddie Albert and Joan Edwards), some nice songs by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson (notably I Guess I'll Have That Dream Right Now), and some fresh story ideas (by Mary Loos, Anita's niece...