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Although Harvard and Yale basketball disappeared into the EIL quicksand weeks age, both teams have more than a traditional interest in tonight's season finale at New Haven...
...been occasionally successful as in 'Great Expectations," but more often they have not as witness "Cacsar and Cleopatra" "Men of Two Worlds," or the current "Beware of Pity." The same indictment cannot be applied to the fine picture that now and then rears up out of Hollywood's commercial quicksand. "The Informer," "Emile Zola," "Ninotchke," or "The Good Earth," support this view. American film makers have many times examined foreign cultures on an intelligent level, or have sounded American short-comings as in "The Grapes of Worth," with more than commercial success...
...Yorkers often suspect that their complex metropolis floats on quicksand. This week their suspicions were at least partially confirmed. In a move unprecedented in peacetime and more drastic than any ever taken in war, Mayor William D. O'Dwyer suddenly called a halt to all the city's activities except those absolutely essential...
...pamphlet, The New Philosophy of Public Debt, to prove that deficit spending and boundless public debt lead either to totalitarianism or to debt repudiation; that without "a stable system of public finance ... in the U.S., and also in other countries, the foundation stone for international reconstruction will rest on quicksand...
...complete bust of his domestic policies and has since deliberately led the country toward war in order to save his political skin. He believes that the defense program is being tragically bungled, with an inefficiency fairly inviting graft and waste. He thinks the President is struggling desperately in quicksand of his own creation. He thinks the President's policies have nearly wrecked the domestic capitalistic system...