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Among the eight candidates for Alumni Association director are J. Brooks Atkinson '17, New York Times drama critic, and Lammot duPont Copeland '27, Director and Secretary of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Also during our time that notable homme du monde, Lucius Beebe arrived in a cloud of dust, straight from the Dean's Office is New Haven and settled down cheerfully as a CRIMSON staff writer. The results were far too numerous to mention. Among them a proposal (greatly applauded at the time) to trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield, and a shattering expose of Kate Douglas Wiggin for plagiarism. William I. Nichols '26 (Editor--This Week Magazine...
...Cousin Rachel lost a good deal of weight in Hollywood. Though the Daphne du Maurier novel was hardly serious reading, its climax did probe the ethics of a murderer and allow his crime to go unpunished. When his clemency disturbed the Johnson Otlice, producers of the film version merely omitted the murder from their script. This compromise left My Cousin Rachel moral, meager, and pointless...
...misty Cornish coast, shadows loom in moss-covered castles. Most of the characters are moody, tormented people who indulge in such eccentricities as ocean dips in the dead of night, and make such remarks as "I came to be troubled by strange and formless fears." Like Daphne (Rebecca} du Maurier's current novel, on which it is based, the picture provocatively leaves the question of Rachel's innocence or guilt up in the air. But there can be little question about the movie version's box-office outcome. Like the Du Maurier novel...
Last week Du Pont reached through the loophole and pulled out a rebate of $29 million, the biggest E.P.T. repayment so far. Du Pont argued that during the base period it had poured millions into expansion for nylon and other new products which it did not start selling until 1939. Thus, a substantial part of its war profits was not "excess profits," and was "plainly not attributable to the war economy...