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There's one born every minute, Barnum said. And the Class of 1949 (summer installment) seems of its way to back up the claim, what with Monday evening's response to very unofficial official poster announcing a compulsory meeting for the all new Freshmen as the result of "a deplorable lack of Harvard spirit...
Hail Darwin! Hail Franklin! The second get-together was in the red-and-gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...nonetheless, episodic. Hollywood's Adano, despite an unlimited camera horizon, also manages to be episodic. Its views of shell-struck Adano are convincing enough, and its opening jeep's-eye discovery of the torn little town, with a mocking glimpse beyond shattered walls of a poster of Mock-Hero Mussolini, is excellent. But the people of Adano, despite a few good characterizations, are as un-Italian as so many Americans...
Well Done! In London, "Potato Pete," the poster model who has long urged Britons to eat more potatoes, was lauded and then fired by his boss, the Ministry of Food. His persuasiveness had created a shortage of spuds...
Certain Niceties. Unruffled Miss Mac adapted herself to Navy ways and used her wit to tactical advantage. At a Navy Day dinner in Manhattan the star of the speakers was Captain Mildred McAfee. With some misgivings, she salted her speech with a story of a British poster which WACs in England had hung in their barracks. The poster, she explained, was designed to make Britons appreciate the sacrifices of their soldiers. It showed a figure in bed under warm blankets while a British Tommy looked on from a muddy foxhole. The caption was: "This man would like...