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...Dean tends to favor some sort of deferment plan as a workable solution at this time, and feels that of the objections to the Trytten plan may disappear now that it has been amended. The new clauses that make men liable for college years, take away some of the advantages to the college student that may have existed before. Of course, a future Congress might change back a rule, and some men could avoid service. "I would not favor this plan at all," Bender said, "unless I thought all would serve at some time or other...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Battle Over Student Draft Goes On | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

...these animals turn up in the dining halls, grow fat, and disappear suddenly? One can't be sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yankee Pot Roast | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

Just ahead of the winter freeze-up, the broad-bottomed barges cast off from Nome's weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKGROUND FOR WAR: Alaska: Airman's Theater | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...unprecedented. For once, Tristan's ravings in the third act seemed only five times too long instead of ten or twenty or a hundred." Vinay's phrasing, particularly when set off against Flagstad's magnificent subtlety, seemed more memorized than inspired. But that defect might well disappear with time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Heldentenor | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...nothing can head off bloodshed, which is a good thing for the picture. Director Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann whips up some first-rate shots of furious hand-to-hand fighting and battle scenes featuring the flinging of dynamite sticks as hand grenades. Swarms of sheep disappear in billowing explosions, the Indian stockade is blown to shambles, and it finally takes the U.S. Cavalry to deal Taylor death with honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Changing Frontier | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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