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...backing again: at its year-end meeting, it gave him a vote of "appreciation for outstanding services." But Walter's latest outstanding service was going to be a bitter pill for Piedmont. Last week, as parents and alumni gathered for the commencement exercises, they faced the bleak news that the Congregational Board of Home Missions had disowned the college, sent letters to its churches freeing them from any obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches' steady support, President Walter may have little to keep running on-only his dwindling tuitions, the Armstrong money...
...bleak heathland of Schleswig-Holstein, since the war, witches have been abroad. In one village a woman has been accused of bewitching her neighbors' cows; schoolchildren in another village created a problem by ostracizing one of their classmates, whose mother, they insisted, was a witch...
Garden on the Moon. The greater part of Nevada (sixth largest state in the Union) is as bleak and uninhabited as the craters of the moon. The Federal Government owns 87% of the whole place, rocks, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and all, and its total population comes to 167,000 souls, only a few more than Bridgeport, Conn. It has only three industries-ranching, mining and the care and feeding of tourists. But arid Nevada has bloomed like a garden for Norman Biltz...
...TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), Volcano is a far better film.* Against the island's rough backdrop, the yarn's primitive passions do not seem particularly excessive or out of place. Director William (Salome) Dieterle has made good use of Vulcano's sun-baked terrain, rocky mountainsides, bleak and barren vistas. Blending a documentary style with the blood & thunder, he has turned out some notable scenes: a raw, vivid tuna-fishing sequence, a scene of island women toiling in the cruel pumice mines, a colorful festival procession on nearby Lipari...
...abortion and dies. Her half-sister turns prostitute and plays informer to both the Fascists and the partisans; she winds up in front of a machine gun and her body is burned in a brush pile. In 1950, at the age of 42, Author Pavese confirmed his bleak views of the human situation by committing suicide...