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Sitting in his straight-backed chair, shuffling through the papers on his desk, the "great rock" could hear the bustle of the double-decked omnibuses in the street below, noisier than the hoofbeats of English carriages he knew half a century...
Riots are noisier than reason. The public, concerned over race tension in Detroit and New York, paid no attention last week to one of the most hopeful steps ever to be taken in the U.S. toward better race relations. Significantly, the step was taken in the South. In Atlanta met 29 Southern leaders - 16 white, 13 Negro. Purpose of the meeting: to set up a Southern Council on Regional Development. Purpose of the Council: to do "the most and the best that can be done here and now" in bringing about equal opportunity for the Negro in the South...
...teach. Like every other ranker charged with training, he has watched combat reports, talked to returning soldiers. Chief lesson from these sources is that even crack outfits are jittery, indecisive and prone to suffer high casualties in their first meetings with the enemy. By making home-training courses tougher, noisier and more dangerous, the Army is confident lives can be saved, battles won more quickly...
...talk about Radcliffe in 1942 without talking about this Freshman Class. Hardly a person in Cambridge, from the teachers at Brown and Nichols to the Physical Ed department on the 'Cliffe, has failed to notice the Class of '46, No one knows quite why, but they're more attractive, noisier, more lively than genus Radcliffe is wont to be. Probably it doesn't prove anything, but this year's average Freshman is 3 inches taller and 1.6 pounds heavier than last season's. That makes here not five by five, as many claim, but 5 foot 5.2 inches tall...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...