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When Sir Stafford Cripps left India three weeks ago he felt that, although his mission had technically failed, his visit had not been in vain. For the first time ever, there was hope that India's two great political bodies, the Indian National Congress party and the Moslem League, might get closer together. Last week Sir Stafford heard cheering news...
...Vain, shrewd, assertive, benevolent, half uplifter, half showman, at 60 De Mille is Hollywood's oldest successful movie maker. He got there by ignoring the art of motion-picture making, concentrating on expensive theatrics, and trimming his sails to the prevailing breeze. Reap is part of his latest excursion-pioneer Americana, a blend of history & hokum which has produced North West Mounted Police, Paramount's top grossing picture (about $2,500,000) of the last ten years. This calculated program has not produced one really fine motion picture, but it has long entertained the biggest segment...
...award is given each year to not more than three Seniors who display the same qualities of sound character and leadership as were typical of Richard Glover Ames '34, and his brother, Henry Russell Ames '38. The two men were drowned in a vain attempt to save their father, who was washed overboard during a trans-Atlantic yacht race...
...their ashes kept coming back. But now it was almost unbelievably different. Already the people might look almost defiantly into the mild skies where the foreign bombers had been expected. Glorious had been Japan's victories. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving the rich, vain, intolerable British and Americans from the Orient. The New Asia was coming to pass...
...read in the paper that the Treasury would be in charge of alien property, rushed over and filed another application. The Treasury told him also to file with his Federal Reserve Bank, so he went back West and did so. Again he waited in vain...