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...Liberal Union and the Teachers' Union wish to invite Harry Bridges to speak, that is their privilege. If Bridges accepts the invitation, that is his privilege. If Harvard grants the use of its buildings, that is the University's privilege. These are facts. To deny their validity is to rip the Bill of Rights bodily from the Constitution, a thoroughly American document...
Assistant on His Own. Archer Vandegrift does not fit the picture of a rip-roaring Marine officer. Most of his 33 years of service were spent as a quiet, efficient, unspectacular assistant to other men, an unegoistic alter...
...done most to enhance Diana's Barrymore reputation was the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet which she played with her father last winter on Rudy Vallee's radio program. During rehearsals she uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud of the job she did. It was a damn good...
...flyer bails out at 35,000 to 40,000 feet and pulls his rip cord at once, he will probably suffocate in the thin-aired substratosphere during the first of the 24 minutes it takes him to float to earth. But if he holds his breath for 30 seconds and plummets a while before opening his parachute, he will retain consciousness...
This Is The Army. Three hundred soldiers and Irving Berlin put on a rousing, rip-roaring show (TIME, July...