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...Alice Faye), who has outdistanced both, to nurse Eddie's self-esteem along to a point at which the knowledge that he is a radio sensation will not totally disrupt his poise, which is still barely sufficient to permit him to sing into what he thinks is a prop microphone in his girl friend's sitting room...
Franco for Fascism-Had not Benito Mussolini, the Founder of Fascism, thus brought everyone up to date on what Fascism is in 1937-namely not the handy prop for Capitalism it was once pictured, but a dynamic social force-the significance of where Spain's leaders stood last week would have been much less clear. They were suddenly and squarely asked where they stood by Roy Wilson Howard, one of the most usefully inquisitive executives journalism has yet produced...
Accessories. Among the welter of engines, models, meteorological balloons, flashing beacons, wind-tunnels, irstruments, parachutes and uniforms, several drew special notice. Displayed for the first time was the world's first single-blade propeller-looking like half an ordinary wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear...
...such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer...
Stephen Greene '38, president of the Dramatic Club, next spoke on the actors, prop-men, business managers, and the plays of that organization. Stephenson gave the next talk, mentioned above, and presented as Harvard's permanent Joke and single word "Radcliffe...