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Because they could take it as one more indication of degenerate capitalist aristocracy, Reds might delight in Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...
...part of the drastic reductions whereby seven Harvard athletic teams are to disappear from H. A. A. schedules, the sword will face the axe after this winter's season...
Although no statement was forthcoming on the nature of the prospective slashes, it seems likely that each of the three grants must undergo the axe. The final decision will not be reached until the Council holds its first meeting early next week...
...factor to be considered in connection with it. An administration may not inform a man when he comes up for promotion or reappointment what his chances of eventual success are. If this is the policy, a man may spend 15 years basking in contented sunshine before he receives the axe...
William Henry Dick of Memphis swept an expert eye up the mighty Mississippi, up all its northern tributaries, up the Wisconsin, the Minnesota, the Skunk, the Turkey, the Rum, the Black, the Zumbro, the Bad Axe, the Sauk. He saw streams swollen, lands saturated by heavy rains, abnormally early snows. If spring rains should be torrential...