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...Sims's] historical background for such a diatribe so superficial that he does not know that it was the north which introduced the black man into this country...
...steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that. But it was true of the people who were in dull, uninspiring work on unglamorous shore duty. A person who is liberally educated-one who has a good many resources and is able...
...taken Rice four years to get his successor. The trustees went out to find a scientist with the right amount of "character, reputation, experience, ability, personality and background." At last they found him: benign, highbrowed Physicist William Vermillion Houston, 46, who last year succeeded famed Robert Andrews Millikan as chairman of the California Institute of Technology's division of physics, mathematics and electrical engineering...
...Heaven (20th Century-Fox) is an obviously costly production of the best-selling (more than a million copies) novel by Ben Ames Williams. The story's central idea might be plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black-&-white picture or in a radio show with plenty of organ background. But in the rich glare of Technicolor, all its rental-library characteristics are doubly glaring...
Many of these tales have been told before in other lands, in other tongues. Ali Baba, Aladdin, Big Klaus and Little Klaus and many others are here in naturalized form. But the background of these Russian stories is the vast steppes, the dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father...