Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radcliffe's Council came out in favor of President Conant's program for Universal Military Service and against exempting on the basis of marks any men already in College, except seniors and talented physics, math, and pre-med majors...
...fifteen "rules of conduct" he warned against scoffing at a woman's intuition. "I use my wife as a guinea pig on all my cases," he added, "and would take as all woman jury anytime--except when I'm defending a woman...
Kipling's red-blooded hokum comes to the screen almost intact, lacks nothing for juvenile excitement except possibly a lancer charge or two. As Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard, Errol Flynn dallies with some dusky harem girls, but the script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized...
...Except for its story, the show is very good. Sidney Stires' music is pleasant and sometimes more than that; there is one song, "Damsel in Distress," which is up to the standards of professional musical comedy. Bill Wheeling has written clever lyrics, even under the debilitating influence of the story...
Roosevelt's fellow editor's opinion of him is mixed; except for a die-hard or two, most of them agree that he was a "very good companion . . . with a ready laugh and a keen sense of humor." A number feel that "other men on the board at the time showed greater promise...