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...most fashionable reactions to The Cocktail Party is to be bored, to affect puzzlement, and to assert that other people like it because it is fashionable to like T. S. Eliot. Actually there is no reason for this manifestation of reverse snobbery, for a nodding acquaintance with the views of Mr. Eliot and a quick perusal of the published form of the play (Lamont stocks several copies) suffice to prepare one for a most stimulating and interesting evening of theatre...
Midyear-grades can in no way affect a student's status under current regulations; Draft Boards are interested only in the student's class standing during the previous complete academic year, Kennedy said. The Office of the Registrar, therefore, issued no statistics yesterday as to the grades men need to place in the upper half of their classes...
...order does not affect the Bank of America, the world's largest bank and the original foundation of the Giannini pyramid. Transamerica once owned 99% of the bank's stock but has trimmed this to 5.6%.*J. Louis Robertson disqualified himself because he was deputy comptroller of the currency when his office, two years ago, permitted Transamerica to sell 22 banks to the Bank of America (TIME, July 10, 1950). Abbot L. Mills, who came to the board from the U.S. National Bank of Portland, Ore., disqualified himself because his former boss had testified for Transamerica...
Threatened telephone walkouts in New Jersey and Michigan will not affect the Boston area, Otto Schmidt, Local Traffic Manager for the New England Telegraph and Telephone Company said last night...
Strikes, if any, would affect primarily the local service in the regions involved, and would not alter long distance service into and out of the regions. If, however, a nation-wide sympathy strike develops, effects would be felt everywhere...