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...University are not going to win any Academy Awards, but they have this virtue--if you can somehow manage to avoid the newsreel, they will provide three hours of uninterrupted laughs that -- unlike Pearl Harbor, Singapore, et al--are not on you. "Design for Scandal" is in the familiar pattern of sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn vs. the entire Gestapo...
...people of Europe, preoccupied with news as near at hand as hunger and cold, Singapore seemed far away. But Singapore was cut from the same pattern of conquest with which the people of Europe had become sickeningly familiar, and there were men in Europe last week who could have told the people of Britain and the U.S. what it means to be conquered-what it costs in brutalization and degradation, what man-made famine is like, what it is to be regarded as slaves of a Herrenvolk. France after 1871 and Germany after 1918 were not like Europe last week...
...spaniel, an English-bred West Highland white terrier, a silver-grey borzoi (Russian wolfhound), a black poodle, a brown Pomeranian. The two dogs that commanded the fanciers' attention were the Old English sheepdog, Ch. Merriedip Master Pantaloons, the gallery favorite, and the West Highland white terrier, Ch. Wolvey Pattern of Edgerstoune...
Some 1,500 workers swarmed over her vast bulk, twisting her elegance into a bleak wartime pattern for the Navy. Then one bright, blithe afternoon this week a puff of smoke drifted across her promenade deck. A few minutes later, the deck was completely ablaze. After two and a half years of idling at a Manhattan pier, the Lafayette (as the U.S. had renamed the Normandie), a ship into which the French had poured $60,000,000 and some 2,500,000 man-days of labor, was in danger of turning into a fire-blackened hulk...
...They Did It. In the light of these findings, The Story of the Eight-Year Study (author: Ohio State's Wilford M. Aikin) may outline the high-school pattern of the future. It begins with a dismaying picture (as of 1933) of the nation's junior and senior high schools, which almost 10,000,000 U.S. youngsters attend yearly. The investigating commission found the schools dull and unchallenging, lacking in a central purpose, their graduates not even "competent in the use of the English language." Though five out of six high school graduates do not go to college...