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...Shores of Tripoli (20th Century-Fox) is Hollywood's first long look at the real pros of the U.S. armed forces: the Marines. So long as it keeps a Technicolored eye on their activities at the San Diego Marine Corps Base, it is a rousing picture...
...title, "The Old Ladies" lacks the pizazz of "Hellzapoppin'" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" to draw the crowds. That a play of that name is being produced in a tiny theatre holding at most a hundred people, by a tiny company of hardworking semi-pros, might arouse at most a little sympathetic interest--not enough, however, for a trip into town to look for that theatre at 36 Joy Street (off Beacon Street a block west of the State House.) Only, therefore, the probable truth that "The Old Ladies" is the most gripping play that has appeared on a Boston...
...armchair strategists might debate until their rockers broke about the subtle pros & cons of Sir Archibald's generalship in the Middle East last year: whether he was too cautious, or too slow, or too orthodox (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). But to the men and women, both in Britain and the U.S., to whom the war was more a worry than an avocation, Archie Wavell was still the best damn general on our side. MacArthur (TIME, Dec. 29, and see p. 19) was right up there, but he had his hands full. Unquestionably Wavell was the best choice...
Guided by graduate students of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, members will interpret the pros and cons of post-war issues across the conference table. The decisions of these seminars are to be presented at bi-weekly symposiums in which three or four of the committee will discuss phases of a specific problem. These forums, and a magazine to be planned as soon as organization has been effected, will present the Council's findings and opinions to the public...
Teachers, as a class, are prone to indecision, and inaction. It is a professional disease. It is the result, perhaps, of an unusual opportunity to see the pros and cons of every situation, and to discover those hidden factors, the ignorance of which makes it relatively easy for the layman to act. Teachers at Harvard are, if anything, less subject to this disease than the average member of their profession. They are more free from outside pressures towards conformity and inaction; they are more willing to differ openly among themselves: witness last year's two opposing faculty groups, American Defense...