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Adams men think their set-up has so much to offer that, to them, the only problem which arises is that of picking a room. Here, you have two choices: do you want a small room with a new shower, or do you want the largest rooms anywhere with a bath...
...last week Michigan's well-coached* athletes were singing it as if they meant it. Michigan's basketball team danced around Iowa (51-35) to become champions of the Dig Nine. Then the players made a beeline for Coach Ozzie Cowles, and shoved him under a shower, clothes...
Before the opening, there had been a few false starts (Jane Wyman set her watercolor to dry in the sun, but an unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still...
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, which counsels the President, took a long look at the falling barometer of commodity prices last week. Newsmen prodded him for a weather report. Was this a crashing cloudburst, or just a heavy shower that might clear away some of the hot air of inflation? Economist Nourse adjusted his pince-nez. This, he said gravely, was a time for "masterly silence...
...real and complicated economic problems involved in the Marshall Plan, makes it evident that any influence will be influence in name only unless it achieves an extraordinary amount of impetus. In a few short weeks, the Committee hopes to promote a rally featuring nationally important speakers, to precipitate a shower of letters and telegrams on Congress, and to set off simultaneous rallies in a number of other colleges. It will be something of a miracle if the Committee can accomplish this program on an important enough scale. But it is a miracle well worth a major effort to achieve, both...