Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknown Battle (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox), one of the best short films of the past year, explains graphically why, on Dday, the Luftwaffe could hardly lift a wing flap. Reason: the incredibly effective U.S. daylight bombings of German aircraft plants which, for the time being, as General "Hap" Arnold says in the film, in one week (Feb. 20-25) broke the back of the Luftwaffe...
...University of Washington believes that it can now answer both these questions with a precision heretofore unknown on U.S. campuses. Now ready for use, the new plan lets the teacher be judged by his own colleagues. They in turn are guided by standards which the Washington faculty as a whole laid down in answer to a recent questionnaire. The novel application of these standards was worked out by Dean Edwin Ray Guthrie, recently chief consultant psychologist on the U.S. Army General Staff...
Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago lawyer and amateur art collector, liked it enough to buy it at auction...
...Tillotsen, who calls Brown his Alma Mater, was seen prodding Fritz Stein into accepting some liberty last week-end. The results are unknown, but Freddie was pretty sharp in Monday's classes, so perhaps James wasn't very persuasive. The amount of mail Don McClure received from Texas leads us to believe that this quiet, longhorn is already making plans for his leave
...Paris on the 26th anniversary of Armistice Day had leaked to all & sundry. But the Prime Minister brushed aside fears for his life. Dressed in an Air Marshal's blue uniform, he rode with General Charles de Gaulle through shouting crowds, laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's monument, bowed in silence at Marshal Foch's tomb, made a speech (in original Churchill French) to the shouting Parisians. High point: "We have had differences in the recent troubled years, but I am sure you should all rally around him [General de Gaulle]." Long, Serious Talks...