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...through the long professional basketball season, the Boston Celtics had lost to the St. Louis Hawks only twice-each time by only two points. Starting the playoffs for the National Basketball Association championship, they seemed to be sticking to the same pattern: St. Louis won in double overtime, 125-123. While St. Louis won two more by one basket, the only formula they seemed to know, the Celtics stayed in the series by taking three; their winning margin ran as high as 20 points a game...
...week when the British announced their revolutionary new defense posture, Australia decided to pattern its fighting equipment, in size and design, after the U.S. instead of Britain. "In the event of global war," said Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "it would be difficult for the U.K. to maintain a supply line to Southeast Asia, though the U.S. undoubtedly could do so. Although Australia is wholeheartedly a British nation, this policy is not heresy-it merely recognizes the facts...
Delivering the closing address of a two-day conference on urban design, Gropius noted that although scientific progress has brought the nation abundant physical and materialistic well-being, there has as yet been little effort towards producing planned communities with "an attractive and sociable pattern...
Although the lectures will follow the Monday-Friday pattern set this week, Oppenheimer, who is director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, will not lecture next week. His next talk will, be on Monday, April...
...trial lawyer since Clarence Darrow," is a sort of jukebox genius who will sing almost any tune for almost anybody who provides the coin. When a young hellionaire (Philip Reed) murders his wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems to care deeply, because he tries so hard, but his performance never really hits the target...