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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sense that the surrender of Munich in 1938 was appeasement, but a recognition that our Asian policy no longer bears any relation to the realities of the situation. Stamping our collective foot at Communist China and calling it illegal has not worked, and now we must come to some sort of agreement. It is possible that the Communists do not want war, and are really concerned about the sanctity of their borders. And if they do want war, then Korea in 1950 is the worst conceivable place and time for us to fight them...
Traditional apathy has given way to a sort of fatalism, and, as the student prepares to go home for Christmas, he is setting his cheerful optimism aside, saving it for some time in the future...
Stanton and CBS can still take credit for changing color TV from a laboratory experiment to an immediate possibility. CBS might eventually lose out in the changing fortunes of battle, but color of some sort is certainly on its way. In Hollywood, the major moviemakers, trembling at the thought of being caught with their vaults full of black & white film when color TV comes along to keep moviegoers at home, last week announced that 75% of next year's movies will be shot in Technicolor or Super-Cinecolor. The Theater Owners of America, who presumably know what their customers...
...look grey, now perversely making reality seem gilded. At the end he casually mates the characters and whisks them out of sight like so many folding chairs. He skims over a world where things cut two ways and cancel one another out. He is very civilized, possibly overcivilized: the sort of man who would add s'il vous plaît to the Ten Commandments...
...Accident. Stocky, firm-jawed Referee Swaffield has a reputation for avoiding that sort of attention. A Watertown, Mass, businessman (advertising manager for Hood Rubber Co.) five days a week, Swaffield has spent most of his football-season Saturdays for 24 years learning to be both omnipresent and inconspicuous. He was never a college football star himself, though he did earn baseball and basket letters at Brown ('16) and played enough football to get "the feel" of it. Like his fellow officials, he started with high school and frosh games, graduated in time to the college circuit. This year...