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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This may mean that the much-sought-after Medical School library will finally be realized. The existing library is greatly overcrowded, and a new library has been given top priority by School officials...
...reserve stands presently at 4,000 men, but the combination of veterans returning at the rate of about 400 per month with those men enlisting under the six-month plan should push the reserve to its newly authorized strength of 15,000 men within two years. This could mean a discontinuance in 1959 of the six-month plan for men in the 18 1/2-25 age group...
...tight corset. Some six basic sets, including Graustarkian streets, bridges, gardens and flats on casters and hundreds of props were arranged in a tight circle on a stage about the size of a basketball court. Off in one niche among the sets, Comedienne Alice Ghostley, one of the mean stepsisters, inadvertently pulled a lavender drape down about her head. "Who in hell moved the curtains?" the prop man screeched from across the room. The sets towered up to within an inch of the overhead pipes and lights. "The street scene is this shape because the studio is this shape." said...
...would be for Congress to increase the VA interest rate to 5%, thus making it more competitive on the open market. The American Legion backs the increase, but many veterans and veterans' groups such as the Amvets, the Disabled American Veterans, bitterly oppose the move because it would mean higher mortgage costs. With an ear to such complaining veterans back home, Congress has blocked all moves to approve the increase...
...atmosphere of Harvard will continue to produce classically educated gentlemen of leisure who will not be concerned with money or being men of affairs, but who read the classics for delight, and form a background absolutely necessary for a living university." Anything but a snob, he seems to mean this more as a scholar than as a gentleman...