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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion, sponsored by the Harvard Zionist Society and the Radcliffe Zionist Organization, is scheduled to begin at 2 o'clock. According to Morton Rosenstock '49, chairman of the seminar committee, it will provide "an inside picture of the recent events in Palestine, the hearings at Lake Success, and the prospect for the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionists to Hear Palestine Agency Members Lecture | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

John van Druten had his first stage success (Young Woodley, 1925) when he was 24. Since then, he has rarely been without a hit-if not in London, then in New York. His biggest: There's Always Juliet (1931), Old Acquaintance (1940), and The Voice of the Turtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Under the "bullheaded premier" Wang Anshih, this took the form of state capitalist enterprises which wrecked small business, taxes which deprived farmers of their land and a totalitarian form of military conscription. Su fought them all, with varying success. Among his achievements was the founding of the first public hospital in China and the engineering of an adequate water supply for the city of Hangchow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unaffected Great Man | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Howard Hughes yesterday flew his flying boat about one mile at an altitude of 70 feet during taxiing runs in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor. The expected take-off was made at a speed of about 100 miles per hour. Hughes, however, did not think the plane's success would affect the attitude of the War Contracts Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman Economists May Ask for Three Million Outright for Europe As UN Seeks Early Adjournment | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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