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Boylston Library's peace and calm received a jolt last night when one of its studious occupants received a singing telegram. Around the corner of the desk by the Wigglesworth side rose the sweet strains of "Happy Birthday to You" to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb...
...trio of characters native to any military movie-the unreconstructed moneybags with a string of polo ponies (Ray Milland), the timid misfit (William Holden), the carefree clown (Wayne Morris)-and hurries them through the five-month training course at Randolph and Kelly Fields in Texas. Along with the studious documentation of a trainee's tribulations are funny and tense shots of the first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night air raid on Los Angeles...
Having less need for an extra stop watch since Tommy Harmon stopped running, glib, studious Bill Stern, top NBC sportscaster, turned his over to Socialite-Explorer Charles Suydam Cutting, chairman of the American Committee for Defense of British Homes, who is collecting 5,000 stop watches to send (with binoculars, small arms, steel helmets) to Britain to help ward off invasion...
Last week in Manhattan, the Army's No. 1 draftsman, studious, able Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey, sat down with labor-union men at a conference sponsored by the left-wing National Lawyers Guild. Subject of discussion: "Labor's Rights and the Defense Program...
...headquarters: Geneva) was organized in 1920 to help European students made destitute by World War I. Since 1933 it has been helping refugee students: German Jews, Czechs, Spaniards, Chinese. Studious and conscientious, I. S. S. was disturbed by the activities of the American Youth Congress, by an increasing tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth...