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...Indians wield their Hatchett and Malekoff with our scalps," said his neophyte aide, "but I'm Tallan you that the Scarlet puts plenty Fiorentino...
Marre worked for eighteen months in the celluloid capital, and at present is directing the Harvard Theater Workshop Production of "Henry IV." He asserts that he knows no Communists in the Guild, and adds that if there are any, they don't wield an erg of influence. "There are a few ineffectual left-wing liberals, with whose opinions most of Harvard would agree," says Marre, adding. "They do their best...
Editor Cyril Connolly's Horizon is wide and highbrow. In his little (circ. 9,500) London magazine, he likes to wield a brush on big intellectual canvases. Six years ago Editor Connolly put out an all-Irish number, a year ago an all-Swiss edition. In the October issue of Horizon, Connolly paid his respects...
Twenty men were nominated for positions as delegates to the coming two-day Massachusetts state AVC convention at Springfield. The delegation will be elected at the next meeting of the chapter on Wednesday, October 22. The AVC group here, the largest in the state, is expected to wield much influence when the convention opens on November...
...What happened at last week's debarkations depended on what paper you read, and what country you lived in. From behind the burlap screens on the cages, American reporters saw "pitched, bloody battles." Over vivid A.P. and U.P. dispatches, many a U.S. paper used such headlines as TROOPS WIELD CLUBS TO EMPTY SHIP. From behind the same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted that there...