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World War II must have come like manna from Heaven to Hollywood. Since the outbreak, that city has wallowed in a puddle of second-rate, money-making melodramas dealing directly or indirectly with the war. As is the case whenever the movies discover a new subject, the first few pictures were rather good, simply because they were a change from the regular Hollywood diet. But inevitably the change came; the plots became stereotyped, the characters lost originality, and all in all the pictures became the ordinary run-of-the-mill Hollywood corn...
...last week's amazing victory over Fordham, this season had been Pitt's worst since 1903. The victory was manna for Chancellor Bowman...
...past year the Associated American Artists' Galleries' business has nearly doubled. To his artists, accustomed to the hit-or-miss sales common in most of the art world, Reeves Lewenthal's regular, dependable fees seem like manna from heaven...
...will N.Y.A. money replace one penny of the million dollars Harvard already gives its students in scholarships, loans and jobs. There are between fifty and one hundred men leaving Cambridge annually for financial reasons despite the University's generosity. The probable eighty thousand dollars of Federal manna will be used to keep as many of these men as possible at their books for the regular four year orgy...
...that there need be no fear of the government's using the program as an opening wedge in a sly campaign to take over Harvard, because no federal officials will be given any direct say in the selection of workers or jobs; all that will come from Washington is manna. Finally, it cites the cogent fact that N.Y.A. is no longer a temporary scheme, likely to be dropped in any session of Congress, for the Work Program enjoys the support of both political parties and a secure position in the Federal Security Agency. After describing how N.Y.A. would supplement...