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...subject peoples of Eastern Europe reacted to Stalin's death. In the big cities of Rumania, Hungary and Poland, many celebrated the event by covertly hoisting a few drinks. In Budapest the Reds herded some 500,000 into newly renamed Stalin Square on Dozsa György Ut for a mass demonstration of grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among Communist officials. Cars came & went in a steady stream at the home of Rumanian Commissar...
...first time, the movies invaded the Square as the University Theatre opened. In April, the UT announced a smoker for all College men. The affair went well, but afterwards a few undergraduates got into a little argument with some policemen. A small fight turned into a big riot, as two policemen and four students were carted away to local hospitals. Thirty-nine students were arrested, and '27 was well represented in the group. In a move that was to be repeated 25 years later, the majority pleaded nolo contendere and were lot off free. The trial saw President Lowell...
...Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive her. When a meeting was finally arranged, however, Mrs. Roosevelt was so bland about it, so pleased, so regally unaware of any intended rudeness, so utterly, ut- terly nice that 1) the Begum's followers were able to say that Miss Fatima was small, 2) Miss Fatima's followers were able to announce that Miss Fatima had a truly magnetic personality, and 3) both camps were left with the uneasy feeling that Mrs. Roosevelt...
Nowadays students themselves comprise only from 10 to 30 percent of the UT's audience, but the atmosphere is still heavily intellectual. "We're in the peculiar spot," Sumner says, "of having about half our audience wanting us to be an "art house" with single features, but with the other half just the same as other Americans...
Attendance at the UT goes up sharply just after reading period and examinations end, falls off before and during. Business is slack now at the UT as in many other American theatres...