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...Russell Brace, an undergraduate director of the annual Big Green weekend, predicted yesterday that the only overnight shelter available will be with friends in the area. Fraternities have each been allowed 45 private invitations...
...week's end the TV Christmas season got off to a superb start with NBC's color spectacular, Babes in Toyland. Comedian Jack E. Leonard finally hit his TV stride as a bumbling villain; there was Wally Cox, Dave Garroway, a brace of excellent clowns and a fine magician, and the TV children as well as Dennis Day were pleasantly inoffensive. With all their help, Victor Herbert's tuneful old musical was translated into one of Max Liebman's best TV shows...
...itself, and by February produced a series of 180 drawings that may well stand among the richest flowerings in soth century art. The drawings were first put together as a book in Paris. Last week they were available on U.S. book counters as Picasso and the Human Comedy (Harcourt, Brace...
...when Marx published Das Kapital, and most anti-Communists answer with a theory of capitalism developed more than 150 years ago by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations. The reason for this, says Adolph A. Berle Jr. in The Twentieth Century Capitalist Revolution (Harcourt, Brace; $3), is that "no adequate study of twentieth-century capitalism exists . . . No one, it seems, has seriously undertaken to restate the actual practice of American capitalism as it has developed since, let us say, 1930, describing its operations and results, and readjusting theories to conform to fact...
...WOMAN IN BERLIN, Anonymous (319 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4), is the stark diary of a genteel blonde who tells about her experiences during the Russians' nightmare conquest of Berlin. These experiences come down to one thing: rape. Singly and in groups, the Russians prowled through the rubble-strewn city in search of women. After being raped four times in two days, the anonymous author of the diary decided to find a strong wolf to protect her from the pack. Protection came at the customary price, first from a lieutenant, then from a major (of whom she eventually became quite...