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...that the Government would issue no national scrip but would leave each financial area to develop its own system under Federal supervision. Bankers worked night & day planning to issue this money substitute while presses whirled out millions of oblongs of paper which citizens would be asked to accept in lieu of cash...
...that those in authority have decided that in lieu of the vanished pomps of yesteryear, the public is at least entitled to a few good belly laughs and for this reason are relaxing their vigil over our entertainment. If we can't afford to be decadent we can at least have our humor more rudimentary. There are abounding proofs that standards are becoming more liberalized. "Hot Pepper," a McLaglon-Lowe comedy coming to the University Theatre in the near future, is a good case in point...
Tickets to the Yale hockey game today may be purchased with checks in lieu of cash, H.A.A. officials announced yesterday. The buyer must be able to identify himself as a member of the University, and there will be some difficulty about cashing checks drawn on Western banks, but all checks on Massachusetts banks and on reputable banks in other Eastern states will be honored...
...good sense to use chunks of dialog by Hemingway wherever they fitted in. When they had to put in dialog of their own they did it so adroitly that only someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant Frederic Henry meets Nurse Catherine Barkley outside a brothel when so befuddled that he mistakes her for one of its inmates. His friend Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), in the capacity of censor, returns unopened Nurse Barkley's letters to her lover when he is on the Italian front and when...
...Bingham examines the question of charges for the use of athletic facilities and arrives at the conclusion that it may be advisable, in lieu of the present charges for use, to set a fixed fee required of all students, regardless of whether they make use of the facilities or not. After pointing out that only five percent of the income of the Athletic Association is derived from the present charges on students, he says that "if our modest fees keep boys away from the buildings, then we have failed to accomplish our purpose...