Word: paralleling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parallel between the two plays goes deeper, however. In "The Voice of the Turtle" van Druten raised the moral level of his ideas by having his promiscuous young couple fall in love in the end. In "The Mermaids Singing" he takes the objectionable crackle out of his created situation by dramatizing an affair which doesn't come off. "The Voice of the Turtle" was carefully cast, brilliantly written, and subtly directed. So is "The Mermaids Singing," but, as a play, the former remains much the superior...
...basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time high of 926 points out of 1,000 (cadet average...
...Russians Again. The Japs organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
Britain was ready to try again. Last week, in parallel broadcasts, Prime Minister Clement Attlee (from London) and Viceroy Lord Wavell (from New Delhi) tendered the Labor Government's new plan in fulfillment of its election promise to offer India Dominion status. Based on the abortive Cripps and Wavell Plans, both of which foundered largely on the failure of India's 256 million Hindus and 92 million Moslems to agree, the new plan promised self-rule (i.e., Dominion status) by degrees...