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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleeping Car to Trieste (Rank; Eagle Lion) has plenty of plot, but hardly enough steam to keep it moving. Like most British suspense films involving a train with a Balkan destination, it is compounded of political assassination and intrigue, seasoned with romantic love and good-natured kidding of British innocents abroad...
...union had voted that all officers should take a non-communist affidavit. This was not a meddling 80th Congress but the rank and file of our 14,000 members in several states. The aforementioned officers refused, so we had to summon a council. Despite 81/2 hours of filibuster by Henderson and a fat gentleman, from the clothing workers union I believe, the delegates voted that all members of the council should take the non-communist affidavit or get. They got. Next day they called our charter, as the International could do legally, and our union ceased to be a democratic...
Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
Dean Wild came to Harvard in the fall of 1926 as a student, and got his M.A. in 1927, and his Ph.D. in 1931. He was named assistant professor of Government in 1935, was elevated to the rank of associate professor in 1939, and to a full professor in 1946. In 1943, he was named associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and he became Dean...
...straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail and get aboard. We're in a hurry...