Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football game a certain pleasure may be derived from calling the plays beforehand, but in "The Homestretch," which happens to be about horse-racing, the average spectator will soon tire of matching wits with a plodding script-writer. Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races...
Left & Right. The whole board, businessmen grumbled, had a decidedly pro-union cast. As businessmen saw it, Murdock would join ex-Kansas Congressman John M. Houston away over on the left; Gray would join young, earnest Chairman Paul M. Herzog, protege of New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, a little to the left. Only Old Member James J. Reynolds Jr., brother of beefy Newsman Quentin Reynolds, would be on the right...
Public Servant. Then in 1931 Wisconsin's Governor Phil La Follette asked him to join the state's public service commission. Lilienthal walked the streets of Madison all night, turning the offer over in his mind. Next morning he telephoned his wife, asked her advice and accepted the $5,000-a-year job. La Follette said that that night Dave Lilienthal decided to make public service his career...
...Biffle up to it. A number of Harry Truman's old friends from his Senate days were there. While they ate Arkansas ham, turkey, potato salad and cake adorned with small flags of Missouri and the U.S., the Senators kidded Harry Truman about his not being able to join them when they returned to the chamber for the afternoon's debates. Les Biffle suggested: Why didn't the President walk in and take his old seat? Harry Truman thought it was a fine idea...
Donald M. Wright '23, executive director of the Church Society for College Work, in Washington, D. C., will join the Business School staff today, as a coordinator of the School's relations with alumni groups and individuals...