Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, which consists of experiences in varying degrees of intensity with three very different young men. The action spans the day before and the day of her scheduled second marriage to an up-from-the-masses coal company executive (John Howard). Embarrassingly present is her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a Main Liner to the last tweed, whom she divorced two years before out of disgust for his alcoholic habits. Haven has brought along a reporter from a picture magazine (James Stewart) who represents the author's conception of the antithesis to well-mannered privacy-journalistic...
...last war to science, and an economic group will investigate the effects of the last war on labor and will write a leaflet on its findings. A music committee, under the direction of Lawrence B. Grose '41, will attempt to popularize an anti-war ballad being composed by Dexter P. Nichols '41. Plans are being made to have a "No Wilson Promises" group in the Glee Club introduce the song...
...University faculty members have been made available for refugees handled by the Boston Transcript, though only a handful of these children are now living in Cambridge, with a few more arriving every day or so. Many of the children are going to private schools in Greater Boston such as Dexter and Buckingham...
...Dexter Keezer quit college (Amherst) to be a machine-gunner in World War I. Later he got his Amherst A. B. and a Ph.D. in economics from the Brookings Institution, taught three years at Cornell, Colorado, North Carolina, quit teaching to be Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and later an editor of the Baltimore Sun. He went to Washington as executive director of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, landed in Portland as Reed's president...
Last week a special C. C. N. Y. committee, having considered 60 candidates in its search for a president was ready to report. Its unanimous choice: Dexter Keezer. The Board of Higher Education was prepared for conservative opposition to Dr. Keezer. To its surprise, the storm came from another quarter...