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Heightened activity in the Military Science Department with a 50 percent increase in the enrollment of the R. C. T. C. will result from the new national defense program, Arthur R. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel U. S. A. and professor of Military Science and Tactics, announced yesterday...
...went to Paramount, earned a place as one of the industry's top-notch directors with Ruggles of Red Gap, Make Way for Tomorrow. In 1937 The Awful Truth won him the Academy Prize for direction, an RKO contract as producerdirector, of which Love Affair is the first result...
...They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with the big three in price. But they discovered that the driving public remained dissatisfied with automobile economy. Result is the new Champion, which has approximately the size of Ford, the power of Chevrolet and the price of Plymouth, but beats all three, claim Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, by 20 to 30% in operating economy...
Melville in the South Seas, the result of six years' sleuthing by a Duke University professor, is a 522-page argument that Melville's books are far from autobiographical, that Melville's South Seas period (1841-1845)-source of his most lasting books-was far more joyous than he later made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel...
Rumania's notification to Britain and France was said in responsible quarters to have been conveyed by King Carol II's ministers to London and Paris who pointed out that Rumania has been placed in a "difficult position" as a result of Chancellor Adolf Hitler's seizure of the war born republic of Czechoslovakia...