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After the Fact. There was no immediate explanation why the official news was held up. Downing Street was mum; the White House was coy and confused. Best guess was that Joe Stalin had held up the joint announcement either because: 1) his Ukrainian armies still faced a small segment of determined Nazis in Moravia, or 2) he was not yet ready to set off Russia's victory celebration. Finally, from London, came word that the official announcement would come the following day. Thus, for the history books, May 8, 1945, became...
nation's first and most outstanding antiprohibitionists and a large segment of voters kept their eyes on him. As a politician, he had an unhappy faculty for backing the loser: the Kaiser until World War I, Harding until the oil scandals, the early Mussolini who made the trains run on time. Despite his good words for academic freedom, students and teachers often denounced his conservative leanings. Since World War II began, Dr. Butler has been comparatively silent on extracurricular matters. In the house at 60 Morningside Drive which Columbia has built around him, and around which he has built...
...Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits of unicorns...
...form the third and final segment of the Class of '48, will receive their indoctrination into the complexities of Harvard life this weekend in a series of receptions, tests, and lectures...
...Tennessee Valley Authority Act was passed almost 12 years ago, and at the time and for a number of years thereafter it was harshly criticized by a considerable segment of the population. Lilienthal now finds it hard to get accustomed to a tremendous change in public opinion, even in the conservative press, and remarked that he is used "to being patted on the back with a foot...