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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President William D. Weeks '49 announced the appointment of chairmen for this year's eight Council committees. Co-chairmen of the Education committee are Hale M. Knight '50 and Herbert J. Spiro '50. Roy M. Goodman '51 will head the International Activities Committee, while Edward L. Footo '51 is in charge of the Extra-curricular Activities Committee...
...Centuries began using mercenary troops from among the barbarians, when full-blooded Romans were running short. That was artificial insemination of their armies, of a sort. And it wasn't long after taking in these "ghost" warriors that Rome was a "ghost" empire! (REV.) Louis L. PERKINS St. John's Episcopal Church Auburn...
...L. Mencken, who cares for nobody, except for the laughs, the whole race looked satisfactorily scandalous. He described President Truman as a "shabby mountebank," Tom Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
...Manhattan's George L. K. Morris contributed an abstraction as tasteful as any in the show, though it demonstrated how academic abstractionism can get. Entitled New Year's Eve on Broadway, it might almost have been painted 30 years ago-on Montmartre-if the signboards had read Vin and Tabac instead of Four Roses and Camels...
...programs arranged by George A. Vicas, David Bauman, and Theodore L. Stoddard, Jr., all '50, after consultation with foreign officials, will be 15 minutes long, and, according to MacNider, will, "for the first time, supply Harvard men with a truly international news summary...