Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost Spring. Marshall's first stop was Paris, where President Vincent Auriol gave a dinner in his honor at the Elysée Palace's somber Salle Murat. On the guest of honor's right sat Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez, longtime mistress and now wife of France's Communist boss. The First Lady of French Communism speaks no English, and Marshall has forgotten most of his French; so hardly a syllable passed between the table companions in the flickering candlelight, while Jeannette vigorously concentrated on her dinner (Consomme Camelia, Timbale Joinville, Jambon d'York, Baltimore Laitue...
...Government job despite a Congress recommendation, was naturally disappointed. When 200 Moslem students, armed with sticks and knives, politely urged him to rejoin the glorious fight for Pakistan, Huq was converted again. He made a new try for his old job as Bengal Premier, also launched a campaign to stop Mohandas Gandhi's "neighborly" preaching in Bengal. Cried Huq: "I am surprised to see Moslems in Noakhali tolerating Gandhi peacefully...
Rookie Hartung's home run the first time up did nothing to stop the fast-growing Hartung legend. About all anybody really knew about Clint Hartung was that he is an overgrown, 24-year-old farm boy from Hondo, Texas. On an Army Air Forces team last year, he had pitched and won 25 games, lost none, and had batted .567. In the story-slim days of spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after...
Though never shown riding a camel, Walter Pidgeon seems uncomfortable enough describing a provocative negligee to a Smart Shop salesgirl, or dancing the Big Apple in a patched-up farmhouse. The misunderstood Miss Allyson and her confused stop-mother, Claudette Colbert, also try hard, but the highlight of the picture is a novel toy that spells out "I love you" whenever somebody spins it. This intriguing device again proves that MGM can always dig up something entertaining--even though it's not always a movie...
...Speak For Yourself" is an original musical comedy written entirely by students. Craig Gilbert '47 is the author of a script "which will probably cause many to stop tracing their ancestry back to the Mayflower," according to publicity director Martin Shwartz 2G. The show's 17 songs are the product of composers John Knowles '47 and Courtney Crandall '46, with theatrical president William Scudder '48 providing all lyrics...