Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tories and each other, were past. The rank & file of British Labor now heard their party leaders, doubling as British Cabinet ministers, report on ten months in office. Though the delegates sometimes cheered at embarrassing moments, though they sometimes rumbled disapproval, though they censured their leaders on minor points, in general they fell in line with the Executive Committee's policy and gave a whopping vote of confidence. The old Labor leaders were firmly in the saddle...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wanted something operatic for Two Sisters from Boston (TIME, June 17). MGM's musicmakers scrambled through the classics. The trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...
...results, announced several days after the vote, also were accepted calmly (with the exception of minor monarchist outbreaks at Naples, Rome and Palermo). The Christian Democrats had won 207 seats in the 559-deputy assembly. They and lesser parties, their probable allies, could expect to control 275 seats. The Socialists got 116, the Communists...
Crimson athletic squads will be active in four minor sports during the summer, Carroll F. Getchell, HAA official announced Saturday. Tennis, track and soccer aggregations will participate in informal competition with local and New England opposition while at least one Harvard crew will take to the water against whatever competing eights are available...
Jaakko Mikkola's thinclads are an unknown quantity if the point-getting Fisher brothers do not return to heave the weights around the Stadium this summer. The track schedule is indefinite, as are those for all minor sports, but the H.A.A. foresees little difficulty in arranging home-and-home matches with other schools in the area who are conducting full-scale summer sessions...