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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting of the Yard Intramural Athletic committee yesterday, members moved to form a new touch football league embracing only the various Freshman dorms. The season will open on November 3, and full athletic credits will be given...
These words, of course, had a good deal of Stalin's "wooden iron" in them. That Communist parties in various countries have been quite effectively connected was proved when French Communist Jacques Duclos fired U.S. Communist Earl Browder by writing an unfriendly article about him in Cahiers du Communisme. The meeting in Poland seemed to have decided that the mostly clandestine connection between Communist parties was not close enough. Mistakes had been made. Italian and Yugoslav Communist parties had differed over the Trieste issue. Worse, the parties in France and Italy, fat with postwar recruits, showed a certain sluggishness...
...pupils with those elements of general knowledge which are closely related to the military preparation of future warriors. ... In the course in geography attention should be given to the development of the ability to define the cardinal points ... to read a map, to grasp the relations of the various elements of relief. This is an essential part of military study. Mathematics should provide training in the use of the scale, the divider, the caliper. . . . Knowledge of mathematics is extremely important for the mastery of military technique. Various forms of out-of-class work designed to prepare children for the defense...
Good fun: the oafish, back-country bears who watch the Bongo triangle square itself. Top-drawer Disney: various dreamlike bits of flowing, beautifully planned motion (notably Bongo's love-dream and the climax of his fight); the marvelously oily thrusting and gropings of the magical plant as it grows & grows through the night; Donald's transcendent Moscow-Arty performance as a medieval duck driven mad by malnutrition...
...Unsuspected (Curtiz; Warner] is suspected too soon by the audience and too late by most of his fellow actors. The result is a long, lame melodrama about a radio star (Claude Rains) whose secretary is the first to be murdered, and various other people, pleasant and unpleasant, who hang around Rains's mansion hounding the culprit, or just waiting their turn. Among those present: Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Kurd Hatfield, Constance Bennett, Fred Clark...