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...able to discount the optimistic hopes of many of his colleagues for a lasting universal peace, and instead said mankind must look forward to an age of "bigger and better wars." Sorokin noted that since that time his most severe critics have been banished to the "ash can of history," and their "apple sauce-sweet theories" have gone with them...
Miss Jean Lunn, soprano, will sing at the opening musical program of the Radcliffe Graduate Center, 6 Ash St., at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Landon W. Young '58-4 will accompany...
...backhanded boost toward success from eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes. Thornton quit Hughes Aircraft in the same big blowup of Hughesmen (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953) that sent Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge off to start their own famed Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. With Thornton went Roy L. Ash, Hughes Aircraft's assistant controller and now Litton...
...with the ample jowls swiveled happily in his seat. Cigar ash dribbled over his shirt front, and his several chins bobbled as his tight little mouth widened into a smile. Everywhere he looked he saw money. There in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum were 78,672 paying customers for the first home game of the Los Angeles Dodgers; no larger crowd had ever watched a single regular-season baseball game anywhere. So far as the Dodgers' President Walter Francis O'Malley was concerned, his team had already conquered Southern California...
...with little more than the small change of his existence, Floyd spends it on the minor characters with whom Author Hauser has rounded out her novel. Among them: a booze-prone church organist who bikes his empties out into the country rather than stash the incriminatory bottles in his ash barrel; a lady reincarnationist who believes she once dined with a Pharaoh; the town's Mary Magdalene with whom Floyd finds it sweet to sin. These and other forlorn rebels form a kind of Freudian chorus attesting the ego-twisting power of convention...