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Powel Crosley Jr., the big man (6 ft. 4 in.) with the midget car, this week introduced his new line of 1948 automobiles. Among them was the cheapest postwar model he has yet produced: a two-passenger multi-purpose sports and general utility car. The price: $799 f.o.b. Marion, Ind. It brought Crosley closer to his ambition of producing virtually the same car for $500 if prices of raw materials and other costs go down...
Lectures number eight and nine in the program which began last month will both be delivered in English to enable non-multi-lingual students to grapple with the finer points of the renowned Spanish romance. Both speeches will begin at 8 o'clock...
...watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...
...this beginning grows the multi-faceted organism that is Harvard College. Under the blows of his sophomore year the student takes his place in the social scale; after that his development can be called almost to the last attitude. Down the corridor he trails, stumbling here and there over an academic problem, an idea on the loose, or a dissident personality. The College, with all its weapons, faces an enormous problem before it can hope to unseat the hard-riding stereotypes of its raw material...
This week they banned "Forever Amber" in Providence. The Legion of Decency has condemned it. And in New York Francis Cardinal Spellman looks askance upon the multi-million dollar "historical" drama. 'Yet yesterday, in more or less unexpurgated fashion, Amber and her playmates opened a probably interminable run at a couple of the smaller Boston cinema emporia. This may be liberalism of a sort, or this may only be a sign of bluenose forgetfulness, but, sad to say, it doesn't represent any kind of progress in the matter of quality...