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...serve as a counsel for Big Steel during a Government investigation. As secretary of U.S. Steel's operating subsidiary, he learned production; as Fairless' alter ego on many trips to Washington, he helped shape policy. This week Vice Chairman Blough was helping Lawyer John W. Davis plead Big Steel's case in the Supreme Court against presidential seizure...
...M.I.T. dean was charged with disturbing the peace during Monday night's Radcliffe riot when he appeared in East Cambridge District Court yesterday to plead leniency for 17 Tech students facing the same charge...
Secondly, on grounds of artistry and originality I'll have to plead de gustibus--I thought "Birth of a Nation" was a lousy movie; crude, childish, violent, and farcical in its most "dramatic" moments. Sure it has Griffith's panning technique and a couple of great battlefield scenes, but why not cut these out and show them as slides? Or go see "The Red Badge of Courage," which is about fifty times as good. Filling in the lacunae of a few cinema snobs does not justify the risk of vilifying a race, or pandering to prejudices that are already...
...almost constitutionally unable to resist friends or acquaintances who plead for her time or her help. When the late Serge Koussevitsky urged her to do a recorded version of the musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf, she hesitated only long enough to be sure he was serious before hustling obediently off to Tanglewood to synchronize herself with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Lawrence D. Shubow '43 will plead for Struik, and Howard S. Whiteside '34 for Winner although the other two attorneys. Oliver S. Allen and Hubert C. Thompson, will be present. Neither defendant will attend. District Attorney George Thompson will represent the state, and Judge Donahue will preside...