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Class of 1957 President Frederick H. Borsch pointed out that the statement is an expression of sentiment, rather than an effort to argue out the problem. "If this paper does nothing more than to spur the Administration to give its side of the problem," he said," "it will have been a success...
Short-story fans and admirers of Anton Chekhov should be as happy these days as a muzhik over a bowl of borsch. Since the end of the war Chekhov's complete works have been published in Russia, and translators have had their choice of some 200 stories (out of Chekhov's 600) that were unknown in English. In The Woman in the Case and The Unknown Chekhov, 37 of these stories and a handful of articles and sketches are published in the U.S. for the first time. They include some first-rate Chekhov...
...weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy village distills sweet-potato brandy, manufactures salt, china and wooden sandals, sponsors wrestling matches, sets up a teahouse with an international menu including everything from snapping turtles to borsch-and all because of First Flower and Lotus Blossom...
...still going at night when the rest of us went to bed." Exasperated Dutchman Theo Olaf finally complained: "Is it absolutely necessary for you to practice until the middle of the night?" The Russians, who had been aloof at first but warmed up a bit when they asked for borsch and got a Belgian version of it, agreed to cut out some of their night work...
...Must Keep Going." Is there any way to keep this sort of thing from happening over & over again? The chief reforms advanced last week: to get games out of gambler-ridden Madison Square Garden and back to the campus, to eliminate the Catskill "borsch circuit," where some of the players were first approached, to persuade newspapers to stop printing betting odds (see PRESS), to pick a basketball czar ("like Judge Landis"), to double the penalties of the bribery law. One suggestion, from Doxie Moore, commissioner of the National Professional Basketball League, candidly seeks to make honesty more profitable than dishonesty...