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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history and evolution of coniferous trees will be the subject of the 1948-49 John M. Prather lectures, which will be given this year by Dr. Rudolf Florin, Swedish paleobotanist...
...years of John Bracken's bumbling leadership. In his farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite applause for Bracken: "Ladies & gentlemen, we come back now to the hard realities of the business before...
...have to stand trial. Two days after her courtroom appearance, Dancer Vickie Evans, who would get a further hearing on her dismissal plea, was picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney...
...Martha M. Eliot, 57, of the U.S. Children's Bureau, for organizing the wartime Emergency Maternity and Infant Care program...
...foreword to his film, "The Eternal Return," the French writer Jean Cocteau explains that the title is borrowed from Nietzsche, and that it means great legends of the past may re-occur without their participants being aware of it. with this interesting idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily...