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Miners at the Brynhenllys mine in Wales struck for an even more trivial reason. There 300 men wildcatted because Will Rees was assigned a new pit pony, named "Britton," instead of his five-year favorite "Bomber." They returned to work only when Rees got Bomber back...
Chemical Job. When the White House turned her down, Reporter Craig said: "Lack of toilet facilities is a trivial excuse. I would settle for one of those chemical jobs they sell at Sears, Roebuck. They'll be sorry. . . ." Clearly, Harry Truman would have to do something about May Craig...
Mother Wore Tights (20th Century-Fox) is a nice little movie starring Betty Grable. In most musicals, Boy & Girl break up over a trivial misunderstanding and treat each other, for the next several reels, like a couple of saber-toothed tigers. In this one, a song-&-dance team of the '90s meet, like each other, get married, have a couple of daughters, and live for years without ever regretting a minute...
...sides; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 6 sides). First U.S. recordings of the 1945 work which the high command of Soviet music damned as "ideologically weak" and "not reflecting the true spirit of the Soviet people." U.S. listeners will find the Ninth sometimes playful, often merely trivial and tricky, and never a match for Shostakovich's Fifth. Koussevitzky, speeding the slow movement, gets through it in one record less than Kurtz, but his performance is less satisfactory...
...first prerequisite for a successful honor system is complete and constant support by the student body. A majority of Harvard undergraduates only want to get exams over with, and the process of doing this is quite immaterial. The kind of faith needed, in what to many is a trivial idea, is only possible in a smaller, more homogeneous student group. That is why many of the New England women's colleges can dispense with proctors. Of the men's colleges in which the undergraduate is put on his honor, Virginia is a closely-knit state college, while Princeton and Williams...