Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration's stubborn scorn of compromise. After 3½ weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it out exactly the way the White House had recommended. It drew the teeth of the Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill out on a straight 8-to-5 party vote. Vermont's mild George Aiken commented bitterly: "Might makes right." To Ohio's Robert A. Taft...
...surprise in the cast: the program's "Louisa Kinlock," who sang the minor role of Amor, turned out to be Ethel Barrymore Colt...
...Yale, basketball used to be considered something better left to Y.M.C.A.s and volunteer fire departments. Until 1937, when Yale changed its mind, basketball lettermen had to be content with a two-inch minor-sport "Y" instead of five-inchers given to crewmen, footballers, baseballers and trackmen. Even after basketball became a major sport, Yalemen refused to get worked up about the game -until Tony Lavelli of Somerville, Mass, came along...
Readings for "The Tempest" will begin in the Phillips Brooks House chapel from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. and from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. today. All interested persons are asked to try out at this time for both principal and minor parts. Casting is expected to be completed by the end of the week...
...hear it. Last week, after Madrid's tabloid Informaciones had exhumed the story, music-and mystery-loving Madrilenos were taking their choice of two suggested explanations. The prosaic one insisted that Maria was hanging on to Manuel's last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart and María, now a wrinkled, white-haired 62, felt that there...