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...cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims. "If parts of Punjab and Bengal want to separate no one can compel them the other...
...Scott Fitzgerald era, sang briefly in Chicago, made a stack of phonograph records that became standard fraternity-house equipment across the U.S. For the next ten years, she was the nation's leading torch singer, rivaled only by the late Helen Morgan (with whom she once split top billing in the Follies). Coonskin-clad Yale students mobbed her, Broadway toasted her, Hollywood beckoned. She was the top singer in radio when a flap-eared stripling named Crosby was singing in a trio...
...extrovert Dartmouth nine brought-Brooklyn Dodger baseball to chilly Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon as the Varsity and the Indians split an Ivy League double-header. The visitors took the first game 5 to 1 without trouble, and the Crimson eked out a 6 to 5 decision in the hectic nightcap...
...soared 8¼ points. Cause of the enthusiasm was Chrysler's first-quarter earnings, which were the best ever. The net profit was $21,502,408 on sales of $317,041,078. (Profits for 1946: $26,889,290.) On the basis of this showing, Chrysler planned to split its stock two-for-one and raise the quarterly dividend rate from 75? to the prewar high...
...whole, the film has an oddly split personality. As a story of individuals it is at best sincere, ordinary and likable, without exciting much interest. But whenever the individual actors are ignored and the camera watches the hard formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving...