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...Wright, the Crimson once more hit the high spots, defeating the Elis in the sabre, 8 to 1. Wright and Win Alberts took all their bouts, while Bob Barr lost his last one, 5 to 4, to Steinberg of Yale...
...Sidi Barr#&226;ni, where Britain won its first land victory...
...Barr & colleagues combed a list of 300 critics, eventually chose as the program's regulars Princeton's Novelist-Poet Allen Tate, Columbia's Pulitzer Prize Poet Mark Van Doren, and Huntington Cairns, assistant general counsel of the U. S. Treasury. Chairman and star performer was Mr. Cairns, who in his spare time speaks 15 languages, reads omnivorously, likes to play the abstruse Japanese game...
Stringfellow ("Winkle") Barr, president of St. John's College (100 classics), believes that anyone can understand a classic. Last spring he and Columbia Broadcasting System's Adult Education Board decided to try to explain the world's great books to the U. S. radio audience. In a program called Invitation to Learning, each week three literary critics held a half-hour ad lib discussion of a classic before a microphone. Among their topics: The U. S. Constitution, Plato's Republic, Flaubert's Madame Bovary...
Died. Camille Barrère, 89, French diplomat; in Paris. Grandson of Bertrand Barrère, famed editor-politician of the First French Republic, he was for 32 years France's Ambassador at Rome, was credited with winning Italy over from the Triple Alliance to the Triple Entente in World...