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...most cheerful trend of the year produced three whiz-bang musicals. Carmen Jones, which put the U.S. Negro in the Hollywood big time, charged the screen with black lightning; A Star Is Born, the three-hour musical version of 1937's big hit, set Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some...
...department will require two three-hour written examinations is the History of Philosophy. According to a statement by Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and department chairman, these examinations "will touch various recurrent themes and issues in the history of philosophy. In each examination the student will be asked to expound and discuss the position of some major philosopher of his choice, and to-compare that position with those of another appropriate ancient or modern philosopher...
...equaling the air pressure in a Comet's cabin when it is flying at 40,000 ft. While the pressure was rising, powerful jacks moved the wings up and down just as wings are stressed by bumpy air. In this way, all the "fatiguing" effects of a typical three-hour flight could be brought to bear on Yoke Uncle in five minutes...
...Tuesday morning Vargas summoned his Cabinet; members of his household joined in a last, three-hour conference. Vargas agreed to step down. He accepted a theoretically face-saving solution: a leave of absence, with Vice President Cafe Filho taking over his office. Then, rising slowly from his chair, he bowed and said: "Goodnight, gentlemen...
Next day British public-relations officers finally announced that there was "some evidence" that the plane had been shot down. The United Press smuggled a Chinese reporter disguised as a coolie into the hospital, where he got the true story -a three-hour beat-from the pilot. An Associated Press correspondent went to a funeral parlor, where he talked the attendant into letting him look at the body of one of the passengers, found she had been killed by gunshots. But the British, who had put a ballistics expert to work checking a shell dug from one survivor...