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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city voters beat Dulles. In New York City, conservative Deweyman Dulles dropped 210,000 votes that liberal Deweyman Ives had had in 1946. Upstate, Dulles, in his first try for public office, held the usual Republican rural counties, but hustling labor workers got out an extra 195,000 Lehman votes in upstate cities...
...tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, greying Bob Hutchins. "If there is one thing I hate worse than a long introductory speech," he snorted when his trustees offered to give him a dinner, "it is a lot of long introductory speeches." Instead, he went about his business as usual, filling his own house with the clack of his typewriter at 6 in the morning and working through the day in his bright white-walled campus office, which a battery of clerks outside take pleasure in calling "God's Office." The only thing he had consented...
Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now plumping himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins...
...role of the "Critic" and friend of the acting couple, Jerry Kilty does not give his usual assured performance and is often unconvincing as the worldly and aged roue. After a few more performances, however, he should have the part better in hand...
...Haven songsters presented a series of short, snappy pieces with a tone perfectly suited to the occasion. The two standbys, "Little Innocent Damb" and "The Deitsch Company," complete with yodels, were sung with the usual glee...