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Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
Dartmouth's passing was just as effective in the second quarter as Reilly tossed to back Kestrel Person for a third touchdown. With the acorn 20 to 0 in their favor, the Indians got a gift tally in the third period when a squad of Crimson linemen caught Reilly far behind the line, and then mercifully let him go. The gawky quarterback took advantage of this by throwing a long pass to end Bill Boyle who raced to the Crimson ten yard line. Three plays later Stan Clark scored off tackle...
...week it was a tree bursting into full growth from an acorn planted a moment before. Another time it was a water pail apparently defying the law of gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
...Psychoanalysis, defended the position that there is not short cut to healthy human growth and that no psychotherapeutic treatment can succeed unless there is a change within the patient. She rejected the idea of man adjusting to society, saying that he has a natural desire to grow, "like an acorn has a natural desire to grow into...
Last week the Chicken Little economists were running about the U.S. shouting cries of alarm. "Catastrophic inflation" is coming, they said, and quickly. To be sure, they had felt more than the ping of a single acorn. Since the start of the Korean war, there had been a slow pitter-patter of inflation. Prices had risen sharply, followed by wage boosts which threatened still further price hikes. And last week more acorns hit: auto prices started going up again (Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard and Nash boosted prices from $10 to $127), and two small steel producers hiked their prices...