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...first time the President had similarly tried to bring order out of chaos. Two years ago the President set up the Office of Government Reports. Purpose: to keep the President informed. He put Lowell Mellett, a keen-eyed onetime news editor, at its head. This year it got $1,500,000 appropriation from Congress. Three months ago, with another fiat, the President installed Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan as Coordinator of Information. Purpose: to keep the President informed. Besides these special agencies, every Government department has its own information service to keep track of the nation's defense...
...York's public and parochial schools, these children were sons and daughters of taxi drivers, shoemakers, waiters, ranged in race and nationality from Chinese, Polish and Syrian to Harlem Negro and plain U.S. Anglo-Saxon. Their pictures crawled and bubbled with youthful gusto. They also showed a keen sense of observation, and the painstaking craftsmanship that results from purposeful intention rather than youthful accident...
Apart from the battle's result, Army men as well as lay observers were mightily pleased with what they saw: two well-trained, hardened armies whose soldiers knew their jobs and were keen to do them well...
...Summer Theatre has caught this spirit of the authors of "The Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal...
...track meet will be held in late November between hour exams and Christmas vacation. Track entries, which Samborski hopes will be more numerous than before, are to be divided into three groups such as the South, North, and West parts of the Yard, chosen with an eye to providing keen competition...