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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the right of the government to protect itself," said HLU President Donald W. Dowd '51, "but why should an unaffiliated student be penalized for attending an affair sponsored by some 'subversive' organization...
...fact is that RCA's system still does not work well. It has rarely been shown to the public, and does not impress laymen. Different sets show the same scene in different colors. The colors are not at all faithful; they often change suddenly and erratically. Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, research chief of RCA, admits that the system is still in the laboratory stage. But RCA-men add that the CBS color system has reached its limit: it has no "room for growth...
...announced that he was "terrified." He had expected about 30 people, but 600 had come. "I don't see why so many people would come to a poetry lecture unless they had to," said he. "I wouldn't." Last week, it was the turn of Poet W. H. Auden to be astonished at a poetry audience of hundreds...
...Father (by August Strindberg; English version by Robert L. Joseph; produced by Richard W. Krakeur & Mr. Joseph, in association with Harry Brandt) is one of the most vitriolic plays ever written. A man who suffered from, quarreled with and hated women because he loved them, who felt perpetually persecuted and all but went mad, Swedish Playwright Strindberg wrote The Father as a testimonial to his first marriage. Conceived in loathing and dedicated to the proposition that all women are created evil, The Father, first produced in 1887, inspired a new theatrical naturalism...
...case, the U.S. could not go on with its present policies without running into serious trouble. "We are so prosperous and rich that we can violate the rules for a time "and get away with it," warned W. Randolph Burgess, executive committee chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank. "But economic laws have a way of working out, and eventually we will have to pay the penalty." For the Government's deficit spending, U.S. citizens may have to start paying the penalty in higher prices in short order. Warned he: the U.S. may be in for another round...