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...President James Bryant Conant. Last week he was even busier than his university. In Washington he spent most of the week conferring with fellow members of Franklin Roosevelt's three-man committee investigating rubber. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he helps direct U.S. scientists' search for new materials, new weapons...
Passenger. In Muskogee, Okla., Patrolman James Hunter arrested a drunk, made a routine search of his automobile, found a securely trussed mountain lion, alive, in the trunk compartment. The drunk remembered helping a friend catch it, but explained he had thought at the time he was seeing things...
...addition to the shortcomings of the story, those of the direction succeed in destroying whatever vitality was originally there. Miss Swanson is made to parade back and forth across the stage in search of either a cigarette or an ash-tray in a manner that resembles Mac West imitating Katie Hepburn. This is a great shame, since Miss Swanson has a definite personality of her own which appears all too infrequently. When the influence of the director is apparently absent, she does a very fine job, particularly in the opening of the third act. Her limited knowledge of the stage...
...India's first Great Mogul. "He was very autocratic, and had uncontrolled power," which he used to consolidate the nation. "In a sense he might be considered to be the father of Indian nationalism." In addition, he had other remarkable traits -among them "his boundless curiosity and his search for truth. He seems to have been convinced that truth was no monopoly of any religion or sect, and he proclaimed that his avowed principle was one of universal toleration in religion...
Accompanied by a onetime New York World-Telegram reporter, Dorothy Walker, Mrs. Curtiss ranged Iowa in search of the usual. The two Easterners noted that Iowans resent being considered isolationist, that the women apply makeup spottily but have fine complexions, that nearly everyone avoided the word "war" but almost nobody forgot that the war was being fought...