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...April 1950, Yard cop John Fitzgerald discovered a nondescript band of students inside the subterranean steam tunnels. Knowing his duty, he chased them--all the way from Adams House to Lowell. When he discovered that they were only members of the Harvard Outing Club on a guided tour, he began to leave. But he had gone too far and promptly lost his way. The HOC had to lead...
Gould himself admitted he had paid the price (up to $3 a lb.), and was grateful for what he got, whether it was new (Gould's ceiling price: 59? to 63? a Ib.) or "the rankest nondescript scrap." Gould identified the sellers as Benjamin S. Flug and Robert Corey, a pair of Brooklyn jobbers doing business under the name of Flurey Products Corp. Said he: Flurey Corp. disguised new nickel electroplating anodes as scrap ones (which are subject to more flexible ceilings), and sold them at many times their proper ceiling price...
Among the nation's scientists and technicians, neither Julius Rosenberg nor Morton Sobell is a conspicuous man. There are thousands like them; their names are unknown. Intense, spectacled, nondescript, they carry out the tedious testing of others' ideas, the intricate mechanical drudgery of the laboratory and the industrial plant. But last week Rosenberg, an electrical engineer, and Sobell, an electronics expert-two faceless men out of faceless thousands-were suddenly projected from anonymity into the hot glare of public scrutiny. They went on trial for a farflung, sustained conspiracy to steal the U.S.'s most vital military...
Written by U.S. Songwriters Alan Livingston and Billy May, who got their idea from Warner Brothers' nondescript cartoon canary, Tweetie Pie, the song was originally recorded for children. Last fall, Capitol's British distributors asked for permission to release the American record in their own standard popular series. BBC Disc Jockey Sam Costa heard it, liked it so well he played it for five programs in a row. When he dropped it from his sixth program, it had become such a hit with his audience that he "was snowed under with hundreds of letters" of complaint...
...democracy v. dictatorship argument, the picture seems to take place in a political vacuum. Its revolutionary mob scenes are too studied, and its attempt to have a single guitar carry the musical score (in imitation of The Third Man's zither) produces nondescript results. Yet, as his first directing effort, it shows promise for Novelist Brooks (The Brick Foxhole). Best scene: the condescending dictator and his friends turning squeamish as they watch Grant in a dress rehearsal of the brain operation...