Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for a few realistic, mildly funny bookmaking and gaming-table scenes, all events leading up to the final clinch are trite and tortured. Gamblers will note with satisfaction that the scriptwriters did not give the betting habit too rough a beating. The movie's only discoverable moral: never bet against love...
...tropical diseases have gone the way of Ross? "Not many," says Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger. Chief reason: a shortage of dope. War cut off the supply of contraband drugs to the U.S., and much of the obtainable dope is so watered down that it will not support a habit. Latest U.S. addiction figures: one person per 3,000-one-third as high as after World...
Lowell, who got Yaleman Edward Harkness to endow the magnificent Georgian houses along the Charles River (see cut), was not very tactful with many alumni. He had a habit of throwing their letters into the wastebasket unanswered...
...cornerstones of Hearstian journalism is righteous editorial indignation which leads to crusades and, hopefully, to bigger circulation figures. Hearst editors are prepared at a moment's notice to turn the heat up under such standbys as vivisection and habit-forming drugs. Last week they were given a new target: salacious books...
...moves via "PreWi" (rhymes with peewee), a highly mechanized common carrier that calls itself "copy boy for the press of the world." PreWi was organized by a syndicate of newspapers 17 years ago, in protest against the oldline cable companies, whose stiff rates and habit of sidetracking low-rate press dispatches had annoyed publishers in World War I. PreWi now also carries radio-photos and voice broadcasts, had a mobile station working from a Normandy beachhead on D-day plus...