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...enlargement of geography departments at the Universities of Chicago, California, and Wisconsin, to mention only a few, makes Harvard's move the more anachronous. Although it is improbable that the administration will reconsider its decision, a measure must be introduced whereby some remnant of the Department may be preserved. This, too, appears doubtful, however, for there remains little enticement in the way of advanced teaching and research to Professor Whittlesey, one of the great political geographers in the country. But if it is not a feeble hope to expect him to remain in a University which has virtually abolished...
Washington insiders heard that at least half of Harry Truman's Cabinet disagreed with his speech. Republicans accused him of demagoguery and of trying to "out-deal the New Deal." The remnant of New Dealers in the palace guard called the speech "a great document." What was quite apparent was that the President had drastically changed his campaign strategy. Harry Truman, the man who privately prefers the middle of the road, had publicly swung to the left again in an effort to help Candidate Truman...
...next spring the new federation may have 2,000,000 members-as many as, or more than, the Communist remnant of the C.G.T. proper, which once (early in 1947) boasted 6,000,000 members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...
When Mr. Gummere and Company weigh in the balance each spring the legions of high school presidents, football captains, and geniuses, they rely chiefly on the results of the College Board Achievement Tests. But along with the democratization and the testing remains an unbending remnant of past glories, a significant segment which finds the path of admission strewn with the roses of one of about twenty New England schools. The last class admitted to the College under normal peacetime standards--1945--found itself when it arrived in the fall of 1941 with the usual 50-50 ratio of public...
Boby Clark is a last remnant of the American entertainment idiom characterized by the minstrel show, the burlesque and the one-two-three kick. Clark and his walking stick continue in the manner of Weber and Fields and other footlight pranksters: a little man who speaks softly and brings down the house. Viewed apart from Clark and the situation comedy he provokes, "Sweethearts" is not worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting...