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Despite national surveys and headlines predicting bleak employment prospects for June graduates, at least 16 percent of the Class of 1950 have already found permanent positions, the Office of Student Placement disclosed yesterday...
...Promise. Brack Lee, at 51, is as ruggedly independent an the pioneers who settled in the shadows of the bleak Wasatch range. A 32nd degree Mason and member of no church in predominantly (74%) Mormon Utah, he had defeated Mormon Democrat Herbert Maw in 1948 by promising to run the state just the way he had run his real estate business in the coal-mining town of Price...
Prominent among the newcomers for which the anonymous compilers made way are Christina Rossetti's sentimental Christmas poem In the Bleak Midwinter...
...South St. Louis, near the bleak and dreary Mississippi riverfront, there stands a gingerbread jumble of 100 buildings which form a city in themselves. They cover an area larger (72 city blocks) than Chicago's Loop, contain a spic & span power plant big enough to serve a city the size of Dallas, and are surrounded with as much rail trackage as Indianapolis. Each year, the buildings consume 3,522,980,000 gallons of water, 4,500,000 bushels of malted barley and the entire output (192,000 tons) of a nearby coal mine. Over them all hangs the sick...
Associate professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Henry d. Aiken agreed last night that the prospect for western civilization is not as bleak as Assistant Professor H. Stuart Hughes thinks. In a Kirkland House Forum on Hughes' recent book, "An Essay on Our Times," both Schlesinger and Aiken declared that Hughes' diagnosis of the West represented the "failure of nerve" on the part of a few intellectuals, rather than a just observation of the current of the times...