Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Printed cards announcing club activities for each day will be posted on the calendars by dormitory representatives, reported Joan McPartlin '49, chairman of the group. The system will eliminate club announcements at dinner, and is intended to arouse student interest in daily club activities. The new program will not, however, replace regular club publicity...
...students sometimes tease Maldarelli with his consuming interest in the female figure. "I used to do abstractions," he says, "but you can put that down to research. Right now I'm working on a panel with a man in it, but I'm miserable with it. Now just the other day a student brought me a figure she said was supposed to represent a soul fettered by society...
...becomes resonant and vivid. But, itself a slave to history, it sprawls and jerks across twelve years and ten scenes, and, lacking a center, becomes a lumpy mixture of chronicle, drama, melodrama and tragedy. What is most effective is the conflict between the two men, but what arouses most interest is the conflict within one of them. The main trouble is that the play seems "written," that it lacks the body heat of reality...
...agree to waive any claim to a share in Jersey Standard-Socony's take from Aramco. But Gulbenkian, the only Red Liner who had signed the agreement as an individual, stood firm. For wangling the original concession in Iraq from the Turks in 1911, he holds a 5% interest in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. He doggedly insisted that the Red Line agreement still stood; he wanted his 5% cut, in whatever Standard and Socony got out of Aramco...
...approved Howard Hughes's proposal to split RKO's picture-making organization from its theaters, create two separate companies (TIME, Nov. 8), in effect setting a pattern by which Hollywood's major companies could make their peace with antitrust (TIME, Oct. 11). RKO will sell its interest in all but 30 of its 241 partly owned theaters, and keep most of its 80 wholly owned theaters. But Hughes will sell his controlling interest in the theater company within a year...