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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum). He has taken up piano and composition again and is currently working on a string quartet...
Last week when Boeing employees voted to choose a bargaining agent, the aero mechanics won, 8,107 to 4,127. Dave Beck, in his own home town, had taken the worst licking of his zooming career...
...extra-curricular drama here by the return of technically trained veterans who knew enough not to make the usual mistakes of a fledgling group. And he warns that, with the passing of the veterans, Harvard drama will lapse into its pre-war state of hapless amateurism unless steps are taken to set up a program within the College itself...
There is no doubt about it. The English are the world's greatest humorists. In "Spring in Park Lane," they have taken a plot as old as Hadrian's Wall which has had all of its intrisic humor drained out over the centuries, and made it into a very funny motion picture...
...staff at Bleemfontein keeps in fairly close touch with its parent body at Cambridge. Two or three times a year the South African group sends here a large batch of photographs it has taken...