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...Morgan Jr. "The Law School will not close," he declared last week. "It has come through other wars and it will go through this war. It will continue to function as long as Harvard University continues." Many a law-school man thinks that the nation can ill afford to abandon legal education even during the war. Cried the president of the Association of American Law Schools, Columbia Professor Elliott Cheatham: "Lawyers are as dangerous and ab horrent to tyrants now as they were when Erskine defended Tom Paine, or Male-sherbes risked and lost his life to defend Louis...
Since the Army has rejected the offer of the Flying Club to assist in hunting submarines, patroling the coast, and convoying ships into Boston along with the Civil Air Patrol, the Club has been forced to abandon its activities for the duration, secretary H.W. Ford King '44, announced yesterday...
...must call upon the leaders of nations to abandon the fiendishly inspired slaughter. ... We condemn the outcome which wicked and designing men are now planning, namely: the world-wide establishment and perpetuation of some, form of communism on the one side, or some form of nazism or fascism on the other. ... We call upon the statesmen of the world to ... bring this war to an end honorable and just...
...best thing in it is Victor Mature's exuberant portrayal of a heavyweight champion, a character compounded largely to Max Bear and Mature himself, with Saroyanish overtones. He hides buzzers in his palms when shaking hands, wears zoot suits, and is in general a card. Parodying himself with boyish abandon, Mature seems much more at home than in such heavy stuff as "One Million B.C." The main function of his co-star in the proceedings, Betty Grable, is, as always, to exude femininity. She does this unremittingly and well...
...fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work for lack of funds. A Cleveland steelmaker's widow who had been one of London's most spectacular hostesses for more than two decades, she plunged into the job of helping feed, clothe, doctor, and amuse soldiers and war prisoners in France three years ago, sent...