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...department. Those who are able to take this advantage can get a degree on 13 College courses and one at Summer School. The reason why the Summer School course has been specifically required under all these plans is because the Faculty feels that a three-year degree-seeker needs the extra College time for added Tutorial work. If he did not have this time, his Tutorial would be the first thing to suffer...
...Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal to the achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role...
Perched in his San Simeon splendor, Mr. Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...
...heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...
...startled receptionist of Manhattan's Roman Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel found this abject fatness slobbering, went to fetch Father Rinschler. The shuddering fat man looked up and shrieked: "Three men are waiting out there to kill me." Father Rinschler called the police, who dragged the sanctuary-seeker away, still gobbling like a terrified turkey...