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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other witnesses told a similar story. Jack L. Warner, live wire of the Warner brothers, ticked off a list of scriptwriters he said he had refused to rehire because they were "suspected." Trumbo and Lawson heard themselves named again. Others in Warner's little Red book: Ring Lardner Jr., Clifford Odets, Gordon Kahn, Howard Koch. Paunchy Louis B. Mayer, boss...
Captain Sisto resigned (many airmen thought he should have been fired, many others thought he should have been jailed). If the plane had crashed, killing passengers and crew, it would doubtless have been added to the list of unexplainable accidents...
These are by no means normal, peacetime figures. In 1939-40, for example, total expenses were about ten million dollars, with total income approximately the same. While expenses have increased evenly up and down the long list, the income boost has been provided primarily by a huge jump in tuition. This has resulted from the overall increased enrollment, and from hiked-up tuition fees in some parts of the University, such as the Business School. The effect on University balance sheets of a return to prewar enrollments--and the consequent reduction of income--in the fact of postwar economic conditions...
...bright note in the Crimson's defeat was the performance of last year's. Freshman cross country captain, Joe Leeming, who has been on the injured list all fall. Leeming was running well at the halfway mark, but at the beginning of the second loop, his knee knocked out of him again and he had to drop out of the race...
...communicating the list of new government jobs which, for the most part, jibe with courses of concentration in the College, the Office called attention to the fact that the deadline for filing an application card with the Washington Commission is November 4. The card is necessary for permission to take the Civil Service examination...