Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill, which includes only about three short paragraphs, would be fantastically simple in operation. All college property in the state has long since been evaluated. Once the bill were law local tax collectors would have only to write a short note to the colleges concerned, demanding them to remit certified checks for sums whose total would run up into millions. Harvard, M.I.T., Amherst, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Smith, and other colleges that cannot meet the sixty-five percent requirement would immediately be forced to curtail expenditures for instruction, research, scholarships, and salaries...
Like most good things, "Stairway" rings the bell on the note of its unexpected freshness and intellectual maturity. Where most producers manage to distort the elementary love story into a complicated and painfully dime novel entanglement, writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Press-burger have restored this favorite theme to its original charm and simplicity...
...Wood: "Why don't you export yourself with it?" The pubs got word of a cut in beer deliveries, perhaps by as much as 50%, because breweries were hard hit by conservation cuts in coal allocations. So were thousands of homes, Stores, offices, factories. (There was one chirpy note. London's Tribune whistled: "Now let's be reasonable. This wide-eyed enthusiasm for bad news can be overdone...
...note of cordiality crept into U.S.-Argentine relations last week...
...peek at himself in what looked like the nattiest role of his career (see cut). His long-planned comedy about a Bluebeardish M. Verdoux who marries and murders for money (leading lady: Martha Raye) would finally be out in March, and Producer-Actor Chaplin was moved to a program note: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; M. Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." Bessie Love, sweet-faced young thing of the silents, complained that her ex-husband, Producer William B. Hawks, had fallen down on his support payments, sued...