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Telegrams and other inquires--some from Harvard groups--may result in defection or modification of the Navy loyalty oath's so-called "informer clause," Rear Admiral J. W. Roper, Chief of Naval Personnel, told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...meeting is the outgrowth of a Roper survey on racial and religious discrimination in admissions practices. The meeting is sponsored by the American Council on Education...
...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...
Thereafter, as Margaret and Dean get sweeter, the hokum gets thicker and the film duller. Together with a little Yorkshire lad (Brian Roper), they discover a mysterious walled-up garden and start remaking it into a brilliantly Technicolored bower. They also succeed in reclaiming crusty old Herbert Marshall for a sunny, tear-washed finale...
Only about one out of ten Americans has ever gone to college, but almost all of them have ideas on the subject. Last week FORTUNE gave its summary of their views. With Pollster Elmo Roper, and an advisory board of educators, it had just completed a nationwide survey probing into everything from costs to Communism and coeducation...