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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prizes, which now go to all students who make Rank List I for the first time, went to 79 men. The Deturs winners will be presented with a book of their choice by the fund...
...bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically unknown" upon the stage at Carnegie Hall "and left it as one of the top-rank violinists of our time." Ginette and her brother, Pianist Jean Neveu, were coming to the U.S. for a series of concerts. With her she brought her "most prized possession"-a Stradivarius violin...
Died. John Robert Clynes, 80, pioneer in the British Labor Party who rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country's first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute...
Christopher Columbus (Rank; Universal-International) turns an exciting bit of history into a series of dull tableaux in antiqued color. Even ten-year-olds, at whom this British-made movie is plainly aimed, will find it about as thrilling as an afternoon spent looking at Christmas cards...
...prospects of victory are even dimmer this year, with both freshman and varsity squads vying for bottom on the rank-list. Losses included meets with Tufts, Holy Cross, Rhode Island State, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth...