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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan Ladd plays a reporter who happens to be in a boarding house when a beautiful young woman is discovered dead there. He is struck by her beauty, and makes off with her address book before the usual cluck D. A. arrives. Using the address book, Ladd sniffs around trying to find something about the girl's family, friends, and past. In the course of this snooping, he bumps into a goodly number of unsavory characters, as well as a couple who are mildly savory...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Chicago Deadline | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...CRIMSON erred Monday and Tuesday when it attributed quotes to John A. Bailey '51 in its articles concerning the Young Progressives' demand that the Navy remove its NROTC loyalty pledge requirement. John M. Bailey, Jr., '52, was the man quoted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratum | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...were welcomed by a heavy-set young man who called himself our "baby dean." After pinning on badges bearing our names and home states, we were led into the room where the Conants were receiving. "Mrs. Conant has bursitis, so won't be shaking hands today," whispered an officiating beadle, as the small group of curious visitors was ushered...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Overheated from the tea, I followed a group of freshmen infiltrating into the ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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