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...pressure group, largely favored Willkie in the last election, and are so overawed by the militant minority of liberal-to-leftists that they have made no attempt to have themselves heard. Britain has its Tory party; the United States has its Republicans; but who has ever heard a peep from the conservative at Harvard? With reference to equal representation for every political opinion, the union must not only avoid open or covert control by one pressure group or another, but must also allow, and if necessary seek, a conservative element as powerful as this collge group is numerous. So much...
Cinemafans who had hoped for a peep at the off-stage life of Crooner Powell and wife, who have been married five years, possess two children, will have to wait. Their performance indicates that they are thoroughly accustomed to each other. Mother and Father Powell have 124 scenes together. In all but 15 they bicker...
...President Roosevelt gave it a polite brush-off at his press conference, indicating that Mr. Reuther's proposal to use idle automobile capacity for aircraft manufacture was just another idea. From the National Defense Advisory Commission, whence any action would have to come, there was nary a peep. Automakers in Detroit said nothing, inspired thumbs-down stories in the press...
...Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover that Bysshe (rhymes with pish) was just an "enchanted child...
...They asked for peep holes, but we will provide them with a plush side-walk club where they can keep a check on our work." Irving B. Parkhurst, assistant business manager in charge of Building and Grounds said yesterday...