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Reforms have already been made in the College dining halls as a result of the Student Council's recommendations last week, it was announced last night by Carle T. Tucker, steward of the Dining Halls, who said that Aldrich Durant '08, Business Manager, had requested the House Stewards to "comply as far as possible" with the Council's suggestions...
...Tucker definitely spiked the rumors to the effect that Lowell has been receiving the same food as the Navy Houses, which are fed from the same kitchen, saying that the non-rationed foods were the same but civilian point quotas were adhered to in fixing Lowells menus...
Australians are living according to Curtin's standards of "austerity." Curtin has told them: "If I have to decide whether I'll be short of fighting men or short of tucker (food), I'm going to be short of tucker." Costs of living are cheap by American standards, but no longer cheap in a country where $14 a week is a good wage for a good stenographer and a man in the higher-income brackets may earn $50 a week. Money, for that matter, does not mean very much; there is so little Australians can buy: eight...
Conditions in the local theaters are sad, too. Loews is proud of a Technicolor Tommy Dorsey and a badly hacked, deleted Cole Porter score in "Du Barry Was A Lady." The RKO, on the other hand, likes its outrages in the flesh, and consequently has both Tommy Tucker, and--of all people--Margie Hart, singing--of all things--a parody of "You Made Me Love You," dedicated to Mr. Minsky...
...Published his first novel (Tucker's People, a study of Harlem's policy racket and concomitant gangsterism), dubbed "the most thoughtful and talented novel" of the year by Manhattan's finicky Nation...