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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finishing school, Rosemary (fee: $1,600 a year) is patronized by well-to-do girls of the hardier sort, most of whom go on to Bryn Mawr or Vassar. Among its 1,900 alumnae are Mrs. Charles Seymour, Mrs. Robert A. Taft, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, President Katherine Blunt of Connecticut College...
...while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view of the audience, for his soul. Ethel is on the Lawd's side. On Lucifer's is the hussy. The husband, as Actor Dooley Wilson irresistibly suggests, is somewhere in between. Lucifer is further abetted by a sort of diabolical advertising agency where hellish "idea men" plan new campaigns of temptation. Their idea for Dooley Wilson is a winning ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes. In the end he escapes perdition-by a whisker...
Harvard's present position right in the middle of no-man's land is untenable, and there must be some sort of a move. The promised land is an Ivy League with real teeth, including at least eight colleges dedicated to the principle that bigtime football is not a contradiction in terms. In other words, they hope to have their cake...
...official release, when details of the report leaked out, New York's Communist Daily Worker scooped its rivals, printed a front-page cartoon and editorial headed "Three Families Drive America to War." Promptly Michigan's Representative Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) lashed out in Congress at "this sort of propaganda played up at a time like this for purposes of political demagoguery." To Representative Woodruff SECommissioner Sumner Pike, retired oilman and onetime vice president of Wall Street's Case. Pomeroy & Co., explained: "In some way unknown to the commission, a copy of the report or the summary...
There have been disasters in history -- the sacking of Rome, the Black Plague, the Hundred Years War. But in its small and subtle way, "Argentine Nights" tops them all. That movie is so frightful that it has a sort of sinister grandeur...