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Committee chairmen include: Appointment Bureau, Helen David off '49. Curricular, Charlotte Horwood '49. Health Center, Nancy Stafford '49; House Committee, Anita Palmer '49; Library, Marie Benedetti '49; Orientation, Francena Thomas '49; Publicity, Jane Conner '51; Social, Sue Hamilton '49; Voting, Jennifer Post...
American Cancer Society Fund (Mon. 10:30 p.m., ABC). Eddie Dowling, Henry Morgan, Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, Ruth Chatterton, Jo Stafford in a benefit show...
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps walked into the House of Commons and presented his first budget. He was a brisk and confident man, for passage of ERP in the U.S. Congress helped him meet Britain's most pressing economic problem-the shortage of dollars. But how to check inflation? And how to induce people to work harder when there was still too little in British shops to buy? Cripps was characteristically clear and crisp. M.P.s did not like all he said, but they enjoyed the performance. When Cripps had finished his 2¼-hour speech...
Along with the Lord Chancellor (Viscount Jowitt) and Sir Stafford Cripps, Queen Elizabeth herself had attended the posh but chilly opening (there was a stokers' strike). The 68 oils and 76 water colors on exhibition brightened the gallery air and thawed most critics' reserve. "What other British artist of this generation," asked the Sunday Times, "could fill the Tate . . . without a hint of monotony?" Added the Spectator: "Perhaps the most consistently fine water colorist of the 20th Century...
...that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...