Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of the artists who were to appear, Mrs. McCullough was a little put out. The second concert featured Larry Adler, the mouth organist, and Paul Draper, the lissome dancer, and she had read enough about them to conclude that both had been busy supporters of various Communist fronts. Hester McCullough went to the telephone and called several board members of the Greenwich Community Concert Association to protest the idea of presenting artists who mixed their art with politics. Most of the members pooh-poohed...
...year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic bishops duly informed education officials that they could not pick up so big a burden. Since then, soaring building costs and various other factors have upped the original estimates to somewhere between ?50 and ?60 million...
...theme of this year's drive is "assistance to students all over the world." Chosen because the Council "believes Harvard students have a responsibility to their loss fortunate follows in various corners of the world," the drive slogan is: "They need...
...present the street floor houses Hunter Haig, a haberdasher, in addition to the cleaning establishment. The Advocate occupies the entire second floor, while the remaining space is used for offices of various professors...
...wants immediate public field trials to test the various systems. CBS declares that it is "perfectly willing to compete with any color TV system any place, any time." But it insists that "a system [its own] can be picked now on the basis of its known performance." Extensive trials, argues CBS, are unnecessary and would be costly and confusing...