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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This deduction is not justified. Masaryk was a liberal middle class democrat of the best sort. He was in sympathy with the progress that was being made in his country. He clearly did not support those, reactionary forces which sought to check it. However, after the events of two weeks ago, he saw in Czechoslovakia the beginnings of a new type of society, a socialist society of workers and farmers, one in which the centuries-long cycle of exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology...
Polly Seliger's "The Bond" is not so effective, yet its complete sincerity breaks through the fumbling descriptions and little awkwardness. The bend is between a mother and her small girl, and the story is refreshing in its lack of any sort of artifice and in its genuine communication of the child's knowledge that she is loved. Miss Seliger makes the mistake in marring the directness of her story by a final twist, but even that might be excused on the grounds that it is the child's realization that she will never again to be loved so completely...
...alarming traits of any sort marked John Harvard's character, John O. Gates '51 assured the College yesterday when he disclosed that samples of Jawn's signature reveal "an objective and dispassionate personality, modest and direct, with plenty of good taste...
...bureau, delighted with the beginning, offered the show to any other television station or network that wanted it. "It's just our sort of medium," said Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer. "Our problem has always been to paint the weather picture in words, and . . . they don't convey enough...
Died. William Henry ("Will") Irwin, 74, longtime Jack-of-all-letters; of a stroke; in Manhattan. The hour-by-hour news stories he wrote for the New York Sun on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake made journalistic history of a sort: he wrote six or seven columns a day for eight days, produced an account that later became a book, The City That Was. The same year, he left newspapering for magazine work, did notable muckraking on corrupt journalism (The American Newspaper), ultimately churned out some 30 volumes of fact, fiction, drama and verse...