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Orchids to Barbara Brown for her efforts to abolish authorized snobbery at Alabama's Shades Valley High School [TIME, Feb. 9]. Possibly there is some value in the continuing existence of fraternities and sororities in our colleges and universities, but in secondary schools they are simply abominable . . . The unhappiness that is caused by children's being "left out" is particularly poignant at their...
More power to Barbara Brown and her campaign against the "snob sisters." ... I am quite sure that I don't want my daughter to be educated to condone dirty politics for the sake of the "right" combination of Greek-letter men, draw only one line in life-the color line, think that a pin serves as the key to every door approached, judge another by her seams instead of her soul, bow to a "beta" but never bend her knee in prayer, or be humiliating but never humble...
Vigilant Momma. In 1932, while attempting to put Korea's case before an indifferent League of Nations in Geneva, Rhee met Francesca Maria Barbara Donner, 34, the daughter of a family of Viennese iron merchants. Two years later they were married in a Methodist ceremony in New York. The Rhees live in a modest mansion on the rolling hillside behind Seoul, only 30 miles south of the front. In their household Madame Rhee maintains constant vigilance...
...amiable little cinemusical with pretty girls, Technicolored scenery, several jingly songs-and practically no screenplay. The slapdash script follows three sailors (Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Ray McDonald) through their shore leave at Catalina. By the fadeout, at a lavish Polynesian beach party, they have each found a girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through...
Jeopardy (MGM) is a frenzied little thriller that allows a lustful killer (Ralph Meeker) to menace a quiet family vacationing in Lower California. When the husband (Barry Sullivan) is accidentally pinned down on a beach by rotting jetty timbers, his desperate wife (Barbara Stanwyck) sets out to find help before the tide comes in. She promptly runs into the desperado, who not only commandeers her car but begins leering at her. Does the wife outwit the bad man? Is the husband saved before the tide comes in? Do the police catch the killer? For this elaborately rigged situation, Jeopardy uses...