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Seeing pictures in Boston frequently poses a problem of sorts, an end-result of the Hub's almost inevitable end-of-the-line spot when first-run dates are being dished out. Thus it often is difficult to find films free from the deluge of critical acclaim or dismay that the New York papers and the weekly magazines unloose. Such a case is the one at hand, for the sheaves of outpourings, pro and con, in regard to this Danny Kaye extravaganza make it rather difficult to uncover anything...
Scattered returns, however, showed two score or more Yardlings confined to bedroom and bathroom. Dr. Contratto identified the condition as gastro enteritis and revealed that epidemics of this disease sweep periodically through girl's schools in the Hub area...
...weekly sportswriters' luncheon in Boston yesterday noon and a subsequent impromptu gathering of a part of the football faculty cleared up some loose ends and misconceptions about the Yale game. Primarily, certain of the Hub's fourth estate, after seeing, the official movies, and without the benefit of coaching (Crimson or otherwise) from the sidelines, strongly implied in print last night that atrocious officiating had cost the visiting team the ball game. We state this merely as news facts and take no subjective stand until viewing the movies ourselves in the next...
Boston threadbare hub of the intellectual artistic universe, seems to have found itself an opera company. Last year Boris Goldovsky's New England Opera Theater was merely a new idea, a well executed but conceivably short-lived one. now it looks as though Mr. Goldovsky and his company are established happily from the points of view of both achievement and potential audience...
This sort of integration has occurred to make the town of Princeton the veritable hub of the country's mushrooming public-opinion polling industry. George Gallup, whose chief employment is with Young and Rubicam's advertising agency, located his polling headquarters in Princeton for the sake of proximity to his farm in the nearby New Jersey hills. Quite coincidentally at the same point in the mid-Thirties psychologist Hadley Cantril succeeded in setting up the University-sponsored Office of Public Opinion Research, sole complete archives of all findings by the various agencies, as well as "Public Opinion Quarterly," the single...