Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggestion by Dean Bender that the Council appoint "acting student policemen" to help keep order at the Yale game rally also came up for discussion at the meeting. The Council turned the plan down, feeling that an undergraduate police force would be ineffective, and that such appointments were out of the Council's domain...
...farmer can find at least three things wrong with a typical early morning farm program: 1) its broadcast of yesterday's prices is no help on tomorrow's market; 2) the program is on the air at a time when he is out doing his chores; 3) it can hardly be heard anyway, what with static and fading caused by his distance from the big-city transmitter...
...problem of buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...
...fascination with the echoes of his own voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...
...clubs, including the Liberal Union, will send watchers to local polling-places and help get out the vote in Cambridge and Boston...