Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This winter the seminar's quarters in Leopoldskron, an ornate eighteenth century castle, will serve as a rest home for European students. Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, who helped Heller guide the experiment through its infant troubles, has remained behind in Europe to administer the home...
Economic Crisis. For crisis had become general. There was scarcely a level of human activity, scarcely a corner of the world unaffected by it. There was the crisis in food. Crops had been bad almost everywhere except Russia. The specter of hunger in winter haunted Western Europe and much of Asia. There was the crisis of production, which was in part a crisis of war's destruction. But it was essentially a crisis of the will to work-a crisis from which the U.S. was scarcely more free than Europe...
...studios are concentrating on "cheap" million-dollar pictures. Costs are being cut, shooting schedules reduced. Metro's If Winter Comes (Deborah Kerr and Walter Pidgeon), which would normally have taken 70 days to shoot, has been finished after only 57. Fox canceled the expensive costume piece, The Black Rose, and plans to bear down on the Louis de Rochemont type of "realism," shot on location. Universal-International dropped Song of Norway, which would have been a big draw on the foreign markets. Expensive musicals generally are giving way to cheap, lucrative little comedies about domestic love...
...from war to peace, although many faced particular problems of their own. Hockey, basketball, and baseball teams carried over many players from informal squads of 1945. The skaters, however, ran afoul of Yale and Dartmouth, two faster-developing postwar aggregations which they will have to be pointing for this winter, and the basketball and baseball squads had to become familiar with two new coaches...
Mikkola is counting on a whole flock of returnees plus some graduates of the '46 Yearling team to "insure a successful season and build the foundation for a good running attack for the winter and spring track teams...