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Mama (Irene Dunne), who is very much the boss in her home, carefully allocates her husband's weekly pay. Katrin (Barbara Bel Geddes), who wants to grow up to be a writer, listens enraptured while the family's roomer, a worn-out old actor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), reads aloud from Dickens and Shakespeare. Mama's painfully timid old-maid sister (Ellen Corby), who wants to marry an equally timid undertaker (Edgar Bergen), seeks Mama's moral support. Little Dagmar is operated on for mastoiditis (by Dr. Rudy Vallee, with a beard...
...Worn-out clothing and outworn books will flow from College dorms into the hands of Brooks House canvassers this week as PBH opens a drive to collect these items for distribution in Europe. Working with the Harvard Food Relief Committee, PBH workers will visit every student room before next Thursday...
Superintendent John C. Tindall, who had taken over after the first killing, made no excuses. He had done his best to clean up the filth, weed out the crooked, underpaid staffers, refurbish inadequate and worn-out equipment. But he could do no more in the face of apathetic, economy-minded state legislators. Said Tindall bitterly: "More criminals have been made in this institution in the past 30 years than in any institution in the United States...
Barnaby returned to his coaching duties in 1946 to find the remains of an untutored wartime squad with little tournament experience, and only 14 worn-out courts on which both Freshmen and team were supposed to play. On top of this, last spring's rains washed out almost all practices as well as several matches...
...short of cars. Car production is still low. Manufacturers delivered an estimated 4,000 new freight cars last month, about half of them boxcars. But every month the railroads, run flat-wheeled during the war, have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn-out cars. Production of enough cars to alleviate the shortage-10,000 a month-will probably not be reached until September. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson, who had blamed the carmakers' low production on lack of steel last winter (TIME, Feb. 24) now blames the car-builders. (The car-builders still blame the steel...