Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscript manpower for service overseas? The Canadian electorate voted Yes by a more than 2-to-1 vote-and the Cabinet thereupon split over whether to enforce conscription immediately. For the second consecutive weekend Mr. King sought refuge in his summer house in the gentle Gatineau hills. Past master of delay and compromise, he emerged this week with a characteristic proposal...
When sport technicians invaded his pre serve and began to talk in a jargon all their own, McNamee became a master-of-ceremonies, a commentator for Universal Newsreel. Three weeks ago he handled the Elsa Maxwell's Party Line show (Blue, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.W.T.), signed off with his usual "This is Graham McNamee." It was his last sign-off. In a New York hospital (where he had gone because of a streptococcus infection) death last week silenced the voice...
...situation which demands more than the routine acclimatization of Sophomores by such measures as Master's teas, House athletics, dances and dinners. If the Houses are to become anything more than stopping-places between New Lecture Hall and Boston night-spots, steps must be taken to integrate the Freshmen into their new environments. By its suggestion to create informal committees of upperclassmen in each entry the Freshman PBH Committee has touched on the problem, but has failed to do more than scratch the surface...
...Dave Belasco, who was responsible for most of the platitude and superficiality that haunts the American theatre to this day, had a very apt pupil in Cecil B. DeMille. The satellite moved to Hollywood to prove that any extravaganza the master had put over on the stage could be made twice as gaudy and twice as profitable on the screen. DeMille succeeded--time and again--and his latest nightmare, mercilessly entitled "Reap the Wild Wind," is now in its second week...
...Mains, master of the speedball, will probably start on the mound for the Freshmen, while backing him up will be Captain Vinnie Leahy, Jim Apthorp and Hoss Hamlen. Also in the lineup will be Irv Rudman, George Casey, Jim Gallagher, Bill Barron, and John Ready...