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...with all this to recommend it, "Guest in the House" does not quite come off either as entertainment or a penetrating psychological study. Miss Eunson and Miss Wilde have hit on a novel idea in having a neurotic girl consciously set out to wreck the happily married life of the Proctors, living in a small house near Trumbull, Connecticut. This kind of thing has undoubtedly happened in many households, in one form or another, and the co-authors never succeed in making the situation quite believable...
...case the Fund's holdings of one country's currency runs short (as U.S. dollars might, for example, if the U.S. sold a lot more goods abroad than it bought), then the Fund Committee could ration that nation's currency and recommend measures (e.g., tariff reduction) to do away with the causes of such lopsided exchange...
This corner would like to recommend that a place in the future plans of the above committee be given to a "Pops" night at Symphony Hall--long a Boston and a Harvard tradition. It would be fine if the entire ship's company could attend en masse--in couples of course. Why waste a shore leave...
...time to meet and know his many ministers. He leaves them free to busy themselves with the spadework; and immense labors have gone into the survey and collation of reconstruction problems. But these industrious ministers have no power to make policy; their committees can only draft and recommend; and the Cabinet seldom meets. Yes or no must be said. It must be said, nominally at any rate, by Mr. Churchill, who has his friends by him. There is the Lord Privy Seal [Beaverbrook]. There is the Minister of Information [Brendan Bracken], a faithful and able lieutenant. But they...
...with Bunyard's pneumonia, Noel's flu, and Johnson's (either one) general condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned in the 4th company this weekend, we don't recommend closing the infirmary altogether . . . May we be the first to welcome our restricted brethren to the "outside." After reading the 5th sentence on page 33 of B. J. M., our only consolation is in the prospect that future weekends may prove sufficiently interesting to make up for it . . . Glad to hear...