Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four thousand dollars short of the total that campaign directors had anticipated for a four day period, Leonard M. Gordon '51, vice-chairman of the drive said last night, "We're going to keep going until we get as close to 100 percent as we think is humanly possible...
Joint instruction brought this situation to a climax, though it had cropped up before the war. Drama groups, for instance, had often become engaged in tiffs about the use of Radcliffe girls in their plays, though generally it was Radcliffe officials with whom they had to deal. And a short-lived rival of the CRIMSON, The Harvard Journal, which was founded in 1934, had over a dozen Radcliffe members on its staff. It had to bargain with Radcliffe officialdom to get these members, but it never sought official Harvard approval and Harvard officials never interfered. Today, an organization seeking Radcliffe...
...Variety-Hour, which takes the place of a second feature, includes a pathos-laden "This Is America" short on an ex-GI who revisits his old battlegrounds; a Lowell Thomas piece about the California redwoods; a Bugs Bunny cartoon; Jan August in a few piano numbers; and "Football Headlines of 1949." The last-named is the best film the RKO Keith has to offer at the moment...
...conclusion, let us face the difficulties in our situation. We have to persuade people whether as members of political parties, trade unions, farm organizations, or business groups--that they should look at the long-range interests of all the people rather than to the short-range interests of their own group. We have to do this in spite of the fact that those who undertake it may thereby lose the positions which give strength and carrying power to their words...
...Russell, who is acting conductor of the Glee Club this fall, should not have been mentioned last. A stage-full of University musicians is an organizational challenge which few men have met victoriously. Only because Russell did so could last night's audience disregard technical difficulties and perceive some short-comings in interpretation...