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...days, as his own director, to put the show on. For the cast, 7,000 applicants were once-overed, classified 1-A, 1-B, 4-F as in the draft, pared down to 350. Every rehearsal was "like an invasion"-350 performers, 70 stagehands, five revolving stages, 17 scenes. Haggard and jittery, Hart managed "to stay calm till I got to my bedroom at night, when I went crazy." Though he had waived every cent of royalties (in various forms Winged Victory may gross $10,000,000 for Army Emergency Relief) the show, for him, was the most important thing...
Last week the Navy added a postscript: nearly 1,000 men of the Helena's complement "today stand fit and ready to fight again." Some of them, oil-smeared and haggard, were picked up near the ship's grave. Others got to nearby islands, lived with the resourcefulness of good fighting men, were finally retrieved. They went to other ships, other stations. But they were still Helena men, would always...
Perhaps, as speculation presented the scene, the haggard, thinning Duce made a last impassioned plea for military aid, then listened to an equally impassioned refusal (see p. 30). Surely it was a rendezvous with frustration. From it the Duce had gone again to Rome...
About 75 students (selected from four times that number of applicants) will hear Dr. Haggard, who has dispassionately written of both inebriety and teetotalitarianism. Haggard points to alcohol's good points ("the safest of all sedatives") and gives scientific reasons for tolerating an occasional cocktail or schooner of beer. Besides Haggard, the school will have 20 lecturers. Students will include clergymen, probation officers, school administrators, teachers, welfare workers. Typical accepted student is Michigan's Liquor Control Commission's research director, Lawrence McCracken...
...school is an outgrowth of Dr. Haggard's Laboratory of Applied Physiology and his Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Teamed with him in all three is Physiologist Elvin Morton Jellinek. Says Dr. Haggard: "This school is not financed by liquor interests nor by the drys, but out of the regular Laboratory research funds." The curriculum will include: physiology national and class liquor attitudes and practices; traffic problems; relations of personality to alcohol; suicide; crime; heredity; temperance movements; social control; legislation; church strategy...