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...were Hitler's chief lieutenants, and witnessed some of their works - the burning of the Reichstag, the June blood purge. Now & again he would send a profile of one of them to LIFE or The New Yorker. They were portraits sketched with careful artlessness against the background of the subject's weird biography and crimes...
Investigating the background of the fall of France, a seminar given by Donald C. MacKay, assistant professor of History will hold up the cliches of newspaper correspondents to the light and try and weed out from a maze of facts the answers to the fundamental questions involved in the collapse of a major power in 34 days...
...there is the question--and a weighty one--of how such a system would affect the social life of a House. One of President Lowell's principal reasons for inaugurating the House system was that it would provide opportunity for all students--no matter what their school or family "background" or what their wealth--to dine with each other in a congenial atmosphere. To set some students apart as waiters undoubtedly would compromise the "dinner table education," for which President Conant too is enthusiastic. Perhaps, also, it would cause a social distinction between the waiters and the non-waiters...
Traipsing noisily on the heels of M. G. M.'s more pretentious Boom Town (TIME, Aug. 26), Flowing Geld indicates that Hollywood has found the U. S. oil industry an acceptable new background for rehashing lusty old melodrama...
...performed a similar service for the British with his 1933 Oscar winner, Cavalcade, knows how to dish out history without resorting to textbook technique. He likes to take a few typical characters of the period, run them through the normal complications of normal people, silhouette them against a background of great dates, deeds, land marks. Thus he fashioned The Howards into a deft exposition of the forces which combined to create...