Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argument centered on the ADA platform excluding Communists from its membership. Speakers against the motion asserted that joining the SDA would alienate many of the liberals who felt their strength lay in the united front, thus isolating the HLU from the main current of liberal action...
...makes most of his points on a leaping, twisting shot from a pivot post. Ambidextrous, he has a knack of changing the ball from one hand to another at the last second and getting it in the clear without a bit of lost motion. His height (6 ft. 5 in.), long arms and springy legs all help. But his prize asset is a big, soft hand with long fingers that enables him to shoot a "soft" ball; it seems to float lazily from his fingertips, either drops clean or drowzes tantalizingly on the basket rim, then falls...
Died. Marguerite Coulbourn Nelson, 28, handsome 1939 George Washington University "campus queen"; on the eve of the second anniversary of her marriage (her second, his third) to ex-WPBoss Donald M. Nelson (now head of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers); of a liver ailment; in Hollywood...
...usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean up this wing of its house if it expects film censorship to grow...
...sometimes difficult for provincial America and that adjective extends in many cases to both coasts--to credit Europeans with bad taste. In the glow of motion pictures like "The Well-Digger's Daughter" and "Open City," the United States audience may be tempted to believe that everything transported from across the Atlantic is automatically blessed with good taste, subtlety, and a vague form of sex. That such is not the case is shown to painful perfection in the latest Italian film at the Fine Arts...