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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other presidents: Cooper Union's Edwin S. Burdell: "In turbulent times such as these . . . steps must be taken to keep young America on an even keel. . . . Memories of the last war, when students were eager to leave school in response to the call of the military, are yet too fresh. Parents should make every effort to prevent the development of a similar state of mind...
Barry Corvall (sulky, hulky Joel McCrea) is a trig young U. S. diplomat in Morocco when civil war strands dark, sultry-eyed, plump-lipped Brenda Ballard (Newcomer Brenda Marshall) in his consulate. When Barry returns to Washington for a stretch at the foreign service school, he takes femme fatale Brenda with him. Though she is more suspicious as a woman with no past at all than many a woman with one, Career Diplomat Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold...
Five years out of the University of California, married but childless, Daniel De Luce was typical of the young newspapermen who last week had the first big news of a great war all to themselves. Attached to the Associated Press bureau in Budapest, he set out northward as Polish resistance dissolved into rout before Germany's mechanized might, passed lines of stolid peasants straggling into Hungary, sullen groups of soldiers retreating across the border, and reached LwÓw as it was crashing into ruins after 14 days of steady bombing by German planes...
Author Milne further objects to the lopsided fate that lets his plays (Mr. Pim Passes By, etc.), novels and essays (which he prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he sticks out his tongue at the tots and says rudely: "I am not inordinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to me is a physical appeal such as the young of other animals make...
Already singled out by Punch while he was editing the Cambridge Granta, young Milne had long since displayed his talents in such schoolboy light verse...