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Dean Donham's "practical skills" have an important place in preparing a man for making his living anywhere in the world--here or in Nazi Europe. But mere technical skill and ability to cooperate with other technicians is scarcely sufficient intellectual background for the average men, let alone potential leaders, in a modern democracy...
...avoid any resemblance to Japan's Rising Sun, two well-known sport emblems were blotted out last week: > Seattle Planeman William E. Boeing, owner of a large string of race horses, had his racing silks changed from a red ball on white background to a red square. > The redball skating banner, for generations the traditional ice-pond signal to indicate "good skating today," was condemned by northern U.S. communities. To find a suitable substitute, a contest will be conducted. One suggestion: a black-&-blue flag...
tory 33b, is to be taught by Major Thomas H. Thomas, and History 43b, the Background of Anglo-American Constitutional Liberty to the Constitution of the United States, is open to students who have had History 1, History 5, or Government...
...movie is a slow-going, vulgarly conceived, and poorly executed melodrama about love in the tropics, with all the usual background of palm-trees, native uprisings, dishonest fellows, and virile torsos. In the end, of course, Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Caribbean blue. The only good things about the picture are madeleine Carroll and the Glorious Technicolor. An actress as charming and demure as Miss Carroll was certainly meant for better things than "Bahama Passage...
...courses have been proposed by the Department of Government: The Background of Anglo-American Constitutional Liberty to the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, and Public Personnel Administration...