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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mosquitoes & Poison Ivy. Did the years ahead, then, offer no contentment? Certainly not, said Novelist John P. Marquand at Massachusetts' Governor Dummer Academy-and a good thing, too. "I have observed," said he, "a number of superficially contented men and women . . . and I maintain they are dangerous. Personally, I am glad to say there are a lot of things today with which I am not contented ... I am not contented with the road system in Newbury . . . nor do I like the control of mosquitoes ... I am not contented with the Boston & Maine Railroad . . . nor do I like...
...feel that although the authorities cannot be accused of "overemphasizing" sports, there is a regrettable overemphasis on the subject in the minds of people like "the Harvard man" of whom I spoke earlier. Moreover, there is a distressing number of these "Harvard men," although many of them cannot be easily identified as such. Still, all of them, whether attired in grey or not, assume a cleancut, fanatic, and dangerously belligerent attitude when discussing sports...
...early comers had grabbed most of the folding chairs; late arrivals sat on the step around the pink-peony-decked center fountain. By the time energetic Conductor Bales had started to whip his 30 musicians through the first number, the hall was packed...
Only a scattering of countries, mostly small, showed a drop in the number of cinemansions since 1947. Conspicuous among these was the U.S. Although their combined seating capacity had grown some to hit 11,796,072, there were now 18,351 U.S. theaters, 414 fewer than were grinding away two years...
...record number of alumni crowded the Business School Saturday for the nineteenth annual conference of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association...