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Harvard is in a particularly dangerous position because the masses of men in training, coming and going through the College from warmer climates, are especially susceptible victims to grippe, pneumonia, sore throate, and influenza...
...sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...human being in his senses wants war at all. But few sensible men saw much hope of lasting peace anywhere in the world if suspicions could not be aired and beaten out like rugs in the sun-and if communications across boundaries could not be couched in some warmer language than diplomacy, in cooler words than a curse...
Selznick has given Claudette Colbert the richest, biggest role of her career. She rewards him consistently with smooth Hollywood formula acting, and sometimes-especially in collaboration with Mr. Gotten-with flashes of acting that are warmer and more mature. He has brought his newest find, Jennifer (The Song of Bernadette) Jones out of the cloister and made her an All-American girl. She rewards him with a nervous, carefully studied, somewhat overintense performance. Selznick placed a big bet on Shirley Temple's comeback and she pays off enchantingly as a dogged, sensitive, practical little girl with a talent...
...Moonlight and Warmer " The official weather report said : "Moonlight and warmer." Was the U.S. Weather Bureau - after 75 years of cautious clichés - suffering a sudden May-madness? Dispatched to find out, Washington reporters met slight, affable Donald C. Cameron, 39, new chief forecaster for the Southeastern U.S. No whimsical amateur, but a Bureau veteran of 22 years, Weatherman Cameron knew exactly what he was about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They...