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...preview of what the Communists are trying to do in Southeast Asia is visible in French Indo-China, where Viet Nam's Communist President Ho Chi-minh's forces have been fighting the French for the past three years. In 1937 Indo-Chinese exports amounted to $101 million; last year they were $56 million, in inflated dollars. Actual export tonnage in fiscal 1948 was 400,000 as against 4,000,000 tons before the war-a 90% drop...
...Preview highlights of the customs which will be passed along to the new 'Cliffedwellers include word that Barnard Hall residents serenade President Jordan and Deans Kerby-Miller and Sherman with Christmas carols and walked off with last spring's song contest with the entry, "Wellesley Has A Muddy Lake...
National Guardian's prospectus was vague, but a tabloid preview edition printed last month (as the National Gazette) by Publisher J. W. Gitt of the York (Pa.) Gazette & Daily gave the general idea. Smartly made up (Gitt regularly wins typographical awards for his own paper), it gave six columns to Henry Wallace's politicking, and brushed off the Battle of Berlin as something "fought mainly by the newspapers whose reports scared the daylights out of some Americans." (Gitt has since withdrawn as a sponsor.) It looked as if the Guardian's complexion would be somewhere between pink...
...furor that accompanied a scheduled preview of the movie, The Iron Curtain, at Manhattan's Roxy Theater was occasioned...
Surrender in Denver. Inside the Roxy all was serene. The Iron Curtain wasn't even playing that night. Six weeks before, the management had decided not to hold a preview, neglected to tell anybody about it. The picture opened uneventfully the next morning while four Pinkertons, hired to beef up the ushering staff, twiddled their thumbs in the aisles...