Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sportswriter Cunningham isn't the first person in the country to swear at daytime radio programs [TIME, Feb. 2]. Hundreds of women have protested in vain and wished they could take punitive action on the radio in reverse...
Author Ewen hopefully pictures the present-day U.S. as a singing, playing, listening, understanding nation of 10,000,000 music students, 50,000 school bands and orchestras, though he tempers this estimate with such revealing anecdotes as Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood-scented remark to Jascha Heifetz: "Money isn't everything, Mr. Heifetz. I can make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed...
...There isn't even a good dance floor at the University," he went on, "and furthermore, Harvard men should dress better before they act snobbish. They probably lose games because of their attitude," he said...
...only disappointments are Jimmy Durante, who isn't too sharp as a take-off on Harpo Marx, and Ann Sheridan, who-while she seems built for the part in more ways than one-lacks the oomph that she's supposed to have and which her part demands...
...matter of fact, this idea isn't entirely new to the University. The Geology department conducted an investigation of its own a few years ago, and decided that the Geology courses offered at the University of Colorado's Summer Session rated high enough to merit the granting of full credit to Harvard students who took them. If this can be done in regard to one department at one particular college, there's no reason for the same thing not to be done on a much wider scale. And Havard's prestige wouldn't suffer in the bargain...