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...passenger ship in the world (behind the Cunard's two Queens), the United States will carry 2,000 passengers and a 1,000-man crew at better than 30 knots, and her builders think she can crack the Queen Mary's transatlantic record of 3 days 20 hr. 42 min. Said Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, Federal Maritime Board chairman: "For the first time in many decades we are playing again in the major league of the North Atlantic...
Oliver Twist is long (1 hr. 45 min.) and rich enough to spare the cuts. Directed by David Lean and produced by Ronald Neame, the British team responsible for 1947's superb Great Expectations, the movie recreates the novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths...
When the Speaker of the House recognizes the honorable gentleman from Georgia, chairman of the Committee on the Armed Services" one day this week, a new draft Act will be just a month away. The gentleman from Georgia, Carl Vinson, will bring in HR 2811, the House version of the new draft bill, which he expects to be passed before spring recess next week. But it should take another two or three weeks for Senate and House conference committees to clear up differences between the Senate bill and House 2811, and for the two legislative branches to take their final...
...present Conant's program is in direct opposition to three others: 1) the Administration's Universal Military Training plan (HR 9411), which calls for a partly-civilian controlled Corps separate from the Services; 2) the plan tacitly approved by General Hershey; and 3) a proposal of the American Council on Education which would defer men on the basis of the test and state quotas...
Then Wright got some bad news. Scraping through the records, someone discovered that Alcock had turned in considerably faster time (2 hr. 44 min.) for the distance in 1875, when he was a mere youngster of 35. Wright announced that he would go into training to beat that performance...