Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the increasing friction in CAB, and over the dissatisfaction throughout the Administration with the way CAB was doing its job (TIME, March 17). The President talked it over with most of his top advisers. All admired Jim Landis' legal abilities and his fair-mindedness, but all had pet peeves. From almost every side came stories about Landis' irascibility and inability to get along with people...
...musical season in Boston and very probably in New York, too. Singing and staging combined as they seldom do in the opera world to produce a performance which was a gem in itself and, more than that, opened up new vistas for the future of Boris Goldovsky's pet project...
Price's pet peeve: flying schools. In the air-conscious area in & about Los Angeles, the VA has footed a $3,523,385 tuition bill to date-and much of the money, says Price, was squandered. As soon as the initial glamor wore off, 4,144 would-be pilots quit without finishing their training. Radio announcing is another snare: Los Angeles stations employ only 140 regular announcers, and there is a waiting list of 475 already. And yet many ex-G.I.s are enrolled at four announcing schools in Los Angeles alone...
...boys' response to his decent treatment kept Minister Mize pondering the problems of "exceptional children," as he likes to call delinquents. In 1945, when he learned that the vacant Poor People's Home at Ellsworth could be rented cheaply, "Father Bob" seized the opportunity to put some pet theories into practice...
...reasons. In the Harvardevens incident of only this month, one man said, "dogs should not be running around kissing children." That certainly cannot be denied, but the only children in the Houses belong to the Housemasters, and they should be able to fend for themselves. Picture a bevy of pet flamingoes gambolling in the Lowell quadraugle, and then ask yourself if the ruling should stay. Only one answer is possible. Picture the physics concentrator taking a moment off from his studies to pat his dachshund, and think again. Let us hope that in the future "feeding time at Winthrop House...