Word: acte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CRIMSON'S "After the Trial" editorial of October 20, raises a very timid and blushing doubt on the constitutionality of the Smith Act and goes on to question loyalty case procedure. It isn't that it makes much difference whether Communists are jailed or federal workers fired for political beliefs; the big issue is whether everything is done with "procedural safeguards." A yawn from the writer and the piece is done...
...trudged toward adjournment. Up for debate was the liberalized Displaced Persons bill, which leaders in both parties were pledged to support. Blasted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after nine months of dogged obstruction by Chairman Pat McCarran, the bill would remove the discriminatory provisions of the old D.P. act, and admit an additional 134,000 D.P.s in the next two years...
...Baltimore, reformed Stripteaser Margie Hart, starring in the legitimate theater with a role in Light Up the Sky, backslid into burlesque when her black velvet pajamas split during the third act...
...from double bilge; Rattigan's study of a defeated schoolmaster is only a shade less routine than his spoofing of ham actors. As entertainment, however, there is a substantial difference between the two. The Browning Version, besides being almost exhilaratingly grim, gives everybody a chance to act; A Harlequinade 'encourages everybody to over-cavort...
Former assistant dean Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, a director of the United Council on World Affairs, will act as moderator...