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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Waugh gave evidence in his one great book "Brideshead Revisited" that he did have a brain underneath that fun-and-games exterior. It was a serious study, streaked through with a deeper humor, of much the same sort of people he had had such fun with in his earlier books. Waugh had come of age, one tought...
M.I.T. student said yesterday that the system of student porters at 'Tech seems to work very well. They emphasized that no social stigma of any sort was attached...
...chairmanship of the advisory board of the Administration's Point Four program (which provides technical aid to underdeveloped countries). At his press conference, Truman said Rockefeller had agreed to be managing director of the Point Four program, but the later White House official announcement indicated nothing of the sort. Washington insiders thought that it was probably a slip of presidential timing, not tongue, believed that Rockefeller would eventually be eased into the top job, now being held by Capus M. Waynick, who is on leave from his post as Ambassador to Nicaragua...
...contradictions, one board member insisted that the whole experiment was "not segregation but congregation-of friends." Said Board Chairman Harold Rogers: "Some people thought we were grouping according to religion. Broadly speaking, I suppose we are. but that is secondary. Our main purpose was to evolve some sort of plan which would make everyone happy...
...goodness sake, Manley," said Victor Milgrim in the sort of hearty executive bass, vibrant with command and ownership, in which big Hollywood producers are supposed to address their writers and prize great Danes. "I'm not asking you to go to Tibet." All Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical...