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Traditionally sophisticated, Vassar undergraduates turn up their noses at "rah-rah" stuff, avoid exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...
Died. Josef Alexander Pasternack, 58, bushy-haired symphonic and radio maestro; of heart disease, during a radio rehearsal; in Chicago. In order to avoid confusion with Cinema Producer Joe Pasternak, he always used his middle initial...
...steering clear of personalities, the Committee hopes to avoid the town and gown controversy which developed in the 1938 campaign, when Plan E was rejected by only 1,767 votes out of 46,292 ballots cast...
Several tutors, and the Tutorial Chairman of one large department, referred to the bad effects of increasing the number of inexperienced tutors. A Tutorial Chairman emphasized a similar point: "One of the difficulties in the system is that the older men avoid tutorial work. As a result there is created a fissure in the department between old and young, between those who defend course instruction and those who defend tutorial instruction...
...made the condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes. Three years ago Ickes forced the City of San Francisco into court...