Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working press. Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch weighted envelopes of copy tossed from the moving train...
Except for pretty, red-haired Moira Shearer, the film is not very fortunate in its performers. Miss Shearer, a ballet dancer appearing in her first movie, is an attractive actress who looks wonderful in tights. The dancing, featuring Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann as both choreographers and performers, is proficient. But, during the longest ballet sequence, the badly inflamed Technicolor will not make the picture any more exciting to balletomanes. People who don't much care for the ballet to begin with may conclude from The Red Shoes that ballet folk are a more tiresome lot of exhibitionists offstage...
...suggest that it is pretty turgid stuff. Also indicative of its savor is the name of Belinda's father: Black McDonald. Yet the picture has many winning qualities. Jane Wyman plays the mute with sweetness and considerable skill. Mr. Ayres is modest and sympathetic. Mr. Bickford and Miss Moorehead do solid jobs of character acting. Stephen (formerly Horace) McNally is a vigorous personality and also a very good actor. In some stretches the picture is just well-sliced ham, but in others it is so good that it hardly seems possible the same crew made...
More than 750 Radcliffe students have paid up an average of $7.25 apiece to date, Miss Braverman calculates. The 100-odd girls still unassesed are expected to turn in their money at the dean's office sometime this week. Final tallies are expected...
...ceremonies Thursday and Friday went off without a hitch, according to Miss Braverman, who reported that no student refused to pay the compulsory $5.75 fee levied on all girls. Last year, one objector protested for several weeks to student and faculty officers before she paid...