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...criticism has had its effect. Nicholas Schenk, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has announced that Ayres will never get his job back with MGM. And since Metro is a subsidiary of Loew's, Inc., which controls almost half of the country's movie houses, it is not hard to predict that attitude of at least a large proportion of the country's theatre-owners in regard to exhibiting Ayres's films. Moreover, it is probable that what few managers have the courage to show his pictures will meet with a stiff boycott, arising not from spontaneous public opinion but from...
...inspired foresight. There are prophecies for every pocketbook, every human hope, dream, fear. The most magnificent prophets are still the Jews. This book contains much of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Revelation complete. Eighty pages are devoted to modish Michael Nostradamus, whose double-talk may or may not predict Hess's flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest prophet," John Ballou Newbrough, prophesies that there will be a great revolution...
...safe to predict, however, that Yale's record-smashing team, one of the greatest aggregations in the history of intercollegiate swimming history, will make the strongest old for the 1942 national team title...
...students in each department has fallen off about 50 percent, undergraduate enrollment in the Geological Sciences has dropped very insignificantly from 599 to 585 and in Astronomy about 25 percent from the fall figure of 50 students. Expecting radical decreases in undergraduate enrollment in regular courses, these science departments predict a swing to the specialized war courses that will more than balance this loss
...marked deck, but it could not overlook the fact that its tactical position on the labor front had not been changed for the worse. Labor, on the other hand, had agreed to give up its only weapon-its right to strike. Some observers were willing to predict that labor chiefs, having maintained the principle of the closed shop, would not make an issue of it again while the U.S. was at war, certainly had no intention of causing the kind of hullabaloo that John L. Lewis had started with his captive coal mine fight. Observers believed also that...