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...longest role in the play belongs, not to one of the three, but to snub-nosed English Ingénue Musgrove. * Actress Anderson's pet story concerns the shy Garbo's inspecting Miss Anderson's California home with a view to renting it. Garbo inquired how often the gardener came, was told "every day." Said Garbo, exiting: "Too often...
Died. The Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowski, 76, for 27 years the "Black Pope" (Superior General of the Society of Jesus) ; in his cell at Jesuit headquarters in Rome. One of the four longest-ruling world leaders of the Jesuits in the order's 400-year history, he was its greatest modern rebuilder, raised the number of provinces from 27 to 50, increased the 17,000 members...
...course, they're used to that kind of prejudice, which is as old as the beginning of the college. First there was Harvardian scorn of the facultyless, unendowed school, but the idea that has stuck longest is the continual refusal of Harvard students to admit that a Radcliffe girl is really feminine. The idea seems mainly to rise from the fact that the girls sometimes wear glasses, often wear saddle shoes, and are usually in earnest. Perhaps Radcliffe has more than its share of seriously interested students; it was founded for the sole purpose of giving women a Harvard education...
When the U.S. had an area slightly larger than that of Mexico today, a population equal to that of Denmark, the world's smallest army, the least impressive fleet that sailed the seven seas and the longest defenseless coastline in the civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly...
Erwin Rommel gained one distinction from the last Libyan campaign. He conducted one of the longest retreats in military history. By last week he had traversed 900 miles from his shattered line at El Alamein...