Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college students filed into first meetings their was a strange soprano note in the babble. It was not coeducation, one prof called it joint instruction, and they were only a lot of Radcliffe girls. But who cared what it was, the scent of perfume filed the Yard, and skirts reminiscent of last summer, rustled in Sever...
Despite all the vagueness and lack of any definite facts, however, it is possible to draw a general picture of the future of competitive athletics here. Note that the word is competitive; inter-collegiate sports are even hazier, although part of the same picture...
...this was simple. Packers, who must sell at a ceiling price, refused to pay the high prices asked for cattle on the hoof. Cattlemen, blessed with the best pasture land in years because of the drenching spring rains, were content to let stock graze and fatten. Only hopeful note: when the hot drought days scorch the pasture lands, cattlemen will stampede to the markets, easing shortages in thousands of city butcher shops...
...Chester Davis, who had not wanted the job in the first place, resigned after three months of manful struggle. He had offered his resignation on June 16, in a letter in which he asked for an appointment with the President. He got no reply. Week later he wrote a note which was not made public, but friends of Chester Davis agreed that never had an Administration chief sent such strong words to the President - and kept...
...producers. But in show business, as elsewhere, there is a premium on speed and efficiency. And specialists not only orchestrate faster but better than most musicomedy composers. In the U.S. today only German-born Kurt Weill (The Beggar's Opera, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) does every note of his own orchestrating himself...