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...Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung by Jeanette MacDonald); Bluebird of Happiness (sung by Jan Peerce); Jalousie (performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra); Make Believe, from Show Boat (sung by Allan Jones...
Bestsellers have never been Conrad Aiken's forte. He reached the peak of his reputation during the '20s, when he wrote long and languid narratives about sexual decadence, blending the theories of Sigmund Freud with the tone of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1930, his poetry won him a Pulitzer Prize. Since then, Aiken has increasingly found himself in the painful position of the good minor writer who has ceased to be a novelty, his name well known but his work little read. Never one to cater to literary fashion, Aiken has continued to write as he sees...
Kirkland is acquiring three resident and two non-resident tutors, while George W. Machee, of the Mathematics Department, is returning. The resident tutors are Andrew Eklund '48, Economics; Samuel P. Huntington, Government; and Harlan C. Meal '46, Chemistry. William H. Miller, History and Literature, and Allan D. Sapp, Jr. '43, Music, will take up non-residency positions...
...MacDonald's shelter was designed and supervised by tall, greying Allan A. Eccles, an X-ray expert in Vancouver. Working with information from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General, Eccles built the shelter in ten days, and says it is "calculated to afford protection against blast, flash and gamma radiation within a reasonable distance of ground zero of an atomic bomb burst." Although Eccles does not plan to go into the business, he is willing to make his specifications available to contractors if the government approves Mrs. MacDonald's shelter. Eccles...
...Federal Reserve officials, that seemed a lesser evil than permitting credit to run uncurbed. Another burst of inflation would hit consumers hard and also cost the Government, as biggest consumer of all, more than it would pay out in higher interest rates. New York Federal Reserve Bank President Allan Sproul had told Congress months ago that "the country cannot afford to keep money cheap at all times and in all circumstances, if the counterpart of that action is inflation, rising prices, and a steady deterioration in the purchasing power of the dollar...