Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because affairs were in this happy posture, it was perhaps a tactful time to note that down in the deep roots of national policy the British and American peoples were not understanding each other's foreign policies as well as two close democratic allies might...
...noted in this study that prominence within these fields was not uniform. The greatest percentage of Harvard men who achieved prominence did so in law, while the medical field had a surprisingly low ratio or prominence. These figures were taken from trade manuals and journals and tended to disprove many of the standing notions about interests of the Harvard student. As an interesting sidelight on the background of Harvard men, it was computed that, while a greater percentage of public school graduates did honor work in college, this situation was reversed in life, where even a greater percentage of private...
...only jarring note came in Boston, where Russia's Nikolai Bassov coldly demanded a plebiscite of U.N.'s prospective hosts. Obviously he had not forgotten last spring's outburst by a Massachusetts judge against "godless Russia." But Bostonians replied to a radio appeal with a 100-to-1 vote welcoming...
...Threat. The U.S. last week sent a probably futile note to Warsaw protesting the Government's violation of the Yalta provision for a "free and unfettered" vote. The one concrete result of continued Western watchfulness, as evidenced by the U.S. note, was Mikolajczyk's personal safety-so far. But foreign correspondents in Warsaw feared that, after a Communist election victory, things might take a grimmer turn between the neighbors of No. 16 Szucha Avenue. Few people would be surprised if there should be a sudden vacancy. As everywhere else, apartments are scarce in Warsaw and Mikolajczyk crowds...
Eddie Canton and wife Ida turned out to have overpaid their income taxes in 1945, got back the difference: some $100,000. Bing Crosby, whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...