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Zigzag Intellectual. Following in Martin's wake may take some doing. A brilliant but zigzag intellectual with the tonsure and the look of a nonconformist cleric (his father was just that), Martin came to the Statesman determined to kindle a blaze: "I thought I was the sort of editor who would destroy the paper within six months but would make my message clear." He succeeded in doing neither...
...CRIMSON article observed later. "Mr. Dillon's offer comes at most felicitous time, for the blaze threw the University's athletic facilities into a critical situation...
Many people have often wondered if the blaze that demolished the inadequate and much inferior locker house really was a complete accident. Still more have wondered if the Harvard football manager at the time of the fire happened to do some vital quick dialing to save the "critical situation...
...statement on Kennedy's behalf: "Senator Kennedy considers it wholly improper and alien to our democratic system for churchmen of any faith to tell the members of their church for whom to vote or for whom not to vote." Thus, once more Candidate Kennedy had helped blaze a trail for American Catholics in their evolving effort (TIME, Oct. 10) to get the church-state relationship in a democracy clarified once...
...Allen; 20th Century-Fox) exhibits Claude Rains in a red fright-wig, and Jill St. John in-just barely-a pair of pink slacks. These wonders notwithstanding, the most intriguing performers, as is only proper in a Good-Lord-Professor-Can-It-Be? film, are several dinosaurs. Their eyes blaze, their mattress-sized tongues flick menacingly, and their lank green hides glisten in squamous grandeur. They thrash about like lovers in a French art film, roar like convention orators and, when they are hungry, give new depth and meaning to scenery chewing. When two of them duel, Fairbanks-fashion...