Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild cheers, such as only political fervor can inspire, will fill Memorial Hall on the night of April 29 when student Republicans gather at an HYRC mock convention to determine the University choice for the GOP presidential nomination...
...between professor and student. To "teach Professor Prosser some law," Poindexter had brought suit in the Cambridge (Mass.) courts for the return of the pocketed $5, plus $5 damages for mental anguish. Then he reconsidered. By mutual consent, the action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have six other students and two recent Harvard...
Headed by Daniel M. Pierce '49, the University chapter has been officially chartered by the National Students for Stassen Committee. Plans are being rushed forward to enlist new members, distribute pins and literature, and push a Stassen victory in a mock convention to be held next month at the University...
...song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout of the year: Frank Sinatra, who wasn't even listed among Billboard's eight top male singers...
...film such as To Live in Peace, the most recent Italian Import, is cloquent proof that straightforwardness and simple realism are far better dramatic ingredients than the usual artificiality and mock heroics that accompany war movies. Even the story is simple: it concerns a little mountain town almost untouched by the war which rages around it. Untouched, at least, until two escaped American prisoners looking for shelter, which is given them by a local farmer. Their hiding and subsequent discovery provide ample opportunity for both comedy and tragedy, as well as for straight drama...