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Madame Butterfly was having its first showing since the Met packed it away in mothballs after Pearl Harbor, afraid that the public would resent watching B. F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant, U.S.N., caddishly deceive the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. Puccini's Pinkerton still sang...
...when Cio-Cio-San committed hara-kiri there were many tear-filled eyes. The Met's general manager Edward Johnson, who in his tenor days sang Pinkerton some 50 times, is inclined to absolve him. Said he: "He's no villain, really. He's a romantic-a biological romantic...
...journalistic meteor was Kenneth Langley, 16, an auburn-haired, apple-cheeked high-school student. He sold Erwin Canham, the Monitor's shrewd and scholarly editor on a kid's eye report on UN CIO. His column has appeared in the Monitor under such headings as: "Boy Reporter Offers Proof China Will Be Strong Nation." Kenneth got off to a slow start. Racing back & forth between his classes and the Opera House a block away, he filed 500 words of stiff schoolboy prose to Boston every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover...
...under the auspices of the CIO and AFL, Palmer offered lectures for a short time in Rockford, Illinois, on the "American Constitutional System." "I have no doubt that this sort of program could be successfully carried out all over the country," he asserted. "We need a politically-educated electorate or our democracy means little...
Subsequent forums featured Joseph Salerno, chairman of the New England CIO Political Action Committee, who spoke on "The Aims of Organized Labor Now and in the Post-War World," and Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, who treated the problem of "The Psychology of Peace." The final forum featured E. Merrick Dodd '10, professor of Law, and Merle Fainsod, associate professor of Government, who discussed the subject "political Reconversion...