Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the optimistic views of his colleagues, something of a minority view was voiced by Seymour e. Harris '20, professor or Economics and head of the undergraduate International Trade course. "Britain will still have a substantial deficit in 1952," he predicted, "largely because the American market won't take much more British goods." Professor Harris says the British deficit is so large that "even if the United States were to double its purchases of British goods, it still would not cover a large part of the deficit...
...last week, Myrtle Bergheim, secretary to presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, stuck her head into the White House pressroom. "The Boss says don't go away," said Myrtle. "He might have a little something later...
...Manhattan, Dannie Heineman shook his head in amazement at what he called Franco's "stupidity" in letting Old Smuggler March go so far. Said Heineman: "This will not only cost Franco all the confidence and all the credits he hoped to get, it will scare all U.S. capital from investment anywhere in Europe...
...Prepared. In New Albany, Ind., Head Librarian Elsa Strassweg resigned herself to the current rash of book thefts: the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook...
...shambles of sight gags, unfinished sentences and self-applause, Milton Berle last week returned to TV. Before a banner screaming: "Welcome back, Mr. Television," he raced through a brilliantly paced and enthusiastically vulgar show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). There were some better-than-usual jokes (Berle poking his head between the curtains to ask drowsily: "Porter-what station is this?"), and plenty of corny ones (the first stooge to come onstage spit water in Berle's eye). But, as usual, whatever Comic Berle said or did reduced the studio audience to helpless shrieks of laughter. Even Berle...