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...Holt's crew is employed to watch the children of married students. Hence they are given rock bottom wages. Holt is faced with the delicate problem of keeping two groups of students happy. He feels the married ones would feel the pinch too much if they were forced to pay the unmarried ones any more...
...Crimson broke a 2-2 tie in the seventh inning and Ira Godin seemed in his way to his second win of the season. He walked George Winkler, a pinch-hitter for pitcher Bill Tighe, to open the ninth and Mario Insani advanced Winkler with a sacrifice. But when Mort Dunn made a great throw from deep short to retire Ray Foley Godin appeared out of trouble...
Harold Stassen, pinch-hitting for President Truman, who was to have delivered the convocation's closing address, made an able, forthright speech in which he made a specific proposal for backward areas. Said he: "The Marshall Plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the war. It is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur Plan in Asia...
...capital of Peru, the vice is out in the open. Hundreds of peddlers, many of whom are their own best customers, offer a variety of items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...
Detective Story is much the same brand of documentary melodrama as Kingsley's Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...