Word: mid-march
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...President Paul Burgraff '48 yesterday completed casting and started rehearsals for three coming plays. "Amphytryon 38", first of the reading theatre productions, is slated for presentation next Tuesday, while a double-feature production of "Waiting For Lefty" and "The Ping-Pong Players" will hit the boards in mid-March...
...situated in the cellar of the commuters' center, with an entrance at the side door, WHCN has set itself up by the labors of 15 members who have been working since the beginning of April. Taking over the basement in mid-March, the radiomen were forced to sand, paint, and refinish the entire station...
That was in mid-March 1942. The MacArthur who flew into Australia then was the picture of what had happened to the U.S. in the Pacific. He had been West Point's First Captain, and one of its greatest students. He had been the Rain bow Division's commander in World War I, later the Army's youngest Chief of Staff, and always the professional soldier's notion of what a professional soldier should look like. Now he was rumpled and untidy and probably for the first time in his life he looked...
...mid-March no copy of Strange Fruit could be bought in Boston. But Commissioner Sullivan insisted that he had not banned the book, in fact "had no right to do so." He had merely dropped in at Boston's oldest booksellers, the Old Corner Bookstore (whose head, Richard F. Fuller, is also President of the Boston Board of Retail Book Merchants), and drawn an interested clerk's attention to Strange Fruit's overripe passages. Soon all Boston booksellers received a notice from the Board of Retail Book Merchants asking them to withdraw the book...
Burning the State Department's hands since mid-March has been a voluminous report on working conditions in Bolivia. In Washington and La Paz, officials debated whether to suppress it or release it, and perhaps bring down a torrent of criticism on 1) Bolivia, and 2) Tin King Simon I. Patino, whose miners precipitated the whole business by striking four months ago (TIME...