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Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton stressed the importance of dealing with Communism "in the open." To back up her thesis that "students are adept at bursting bubbles," she cited the pre-war case of "a very attractive young Nazi instructress so clearly a pawn in the hands of her mentors that everything she said was torn apart...
...wife and Robert Cummings as the passing here. Though Miss Colbert is no longer the bathing beauty she was in Sign of the Cross, she does her best to convey an air of youthful innocence and terror. Her best is good enough. Cummings is reminiscent of the debonair pre-war Robert Montgomery, and a far cry from the usual neurotic hard-drinking males who presently haunt the screen. Don Amcche is adequate as the husband though he makes an unexpected "heavy." In fact the only weak spot is debut of Hazel Brooks. Fortunately her costumes make up for her cultural...
While on Midway Island Harlow contracted malaria which ended in a high blood pressure condition after three months in Naval hospitals. Released from service in the spring of 1946 Harlow returned to Cambridge in the fall, although far from his pre-war health...
...received careful study. President Truman's Commission on Higher Education, appointed in July, 1946, issued a report--the first of six--on December 15, in which it firmly faces the future of American colleges. Instead of wailing with the pessimists that schools ought to cut down to a timid pre-war level, the Commission strongly recommends that enrollment be doubled...
Quceny is already studying at Trinity College, Dublin. The Globe Fellowship will enable him to work for a Doctorate of Philosophy in Literature, after which he plans to teach on a secondary school level. He was graduated from Thayer Academy and took his pre-war college years at Colgate. His Navy service record includes participation in the Normandy invasion and command of a terpedo boat...