Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warns him to expect callers and adds, "the president of the Chamber of Commerce . . . would resent being received by a young man wearing ... a bright green pullover." And Third Secretary Bull had best adjust to being familiarly called "John" by embassy colleagues; "after a day or two ... he may return this vulgar compliment...
POINT OF No RETURN (559 pp.)-John P. Marquand- Little, Brown...
Life Without Props. For almost two years Novelist John Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...
...make life bearable. The question Author Marquand's book raises is: "Are the rewards of all your efforts worth the effort?" But Charley Gray himself may be too busy even to hear the issue stated. Like an aircraft pilot who has passed his own point of no return-the point on a long flight where it takes more gas to go back than to go on to his destination-Charley has to keep going...
...meal contract plan be revised, and the Council is asking the University to show why the present 21 meal requirement is especially necessary. The change most often suggested was a reversion to the pre-war 7, 14 or 21 meal per week optional contract. But curiously enough, a return to the optional contract system would mean a cost increase for a majority, and only a small saving to a minority...