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Children, like cats, will watch anything that moves, and the fact has not been lost on makers of children's films. Hustling for small change, they dress shoddy actors in seedy costumes, bloat fairy tales to 1½-hour proportions and ship the results to Saturday matinees. In the throng, however, there are a few legitimate producers whose gold is all but lost in the straw. The best of them is Robert Radnitz, 44, whose movies-A Dog of Flanders, Island of the Blue Dolphins, And Now Miguel-are the sleepers of the children's film industry...
...sure, one does not cure fanaticism by disciplinary punishment; it is much better to underline the pathetic futility of the sit-in than to bloat its importance by turning bunglers into martyrs, who could then receive at last the sympathy and support of the bulk of the students, and whose sense of being the victims of Faculty and Administration repressiveness would then be vindicated. The escalation of bitter confrontation is in nobody's interest. What happened here was not at all of the same order of magnitude as what was done by others at Berkeley of Columbia. Here, there...
Another landmark in Harvard hoop history will be passed tonight every time junior Keith Sedlacek scores a basket. Sedlacek established an all-time season scoring record of 458 points last Saturday, and should bloat that total against the Elis tonight. He will also become the first Crimson player ever to average more than 20 points in his a season...
...report, entitled "Education in the Junior High School Years," Conant sharply criticizes schools which over emphasize athletics or pretentious academic ritual at the cost of basic intellectual skills. Problems Conant particularly emphasizes include: communities that bloat the importance of a junior high school "senior"; the inability of many ninth graders to read even at sixth grade level; lack of coordination between a community's junior and senior high schools; and frequently a lack of coordination between grades in the junior high school itself...
...Whenever there is a political bloat, Mort sticks a pin in it," says Hubert Humphrey. Among his constituents Sahl counts Adlai Stevenson, who sees him regularly when Sahl is in Chicago. Says Adlai: "I dote on him." Sahl contributed a joke bank that John Kennedy drew on for his witty performance at last November's Al Smith Dinner, once discouraged a Nixon worker who approached him for a similar purpose. As for President Eisenhower, he has never heard of Mort Sahl -possibly because the comedian refers to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty as "Ike's right foot." But Sahl...