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...some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist, protected the trains in person. By 1871, Glenlivet was the only still in the glen...
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (232 pp.)- George Orwell - Harcourt, Brace...
This week, with the publication of a new book called They Went to College (Harcourt, Brace; $4), U.S. readers could find out. The book is the product of a five-year study, made by TIME, of 9,064 representative graduates. A Columbia University statistician, Patricia Salter West, analyzed the survey, and LIFE Editor Ernest Havemann translated the statistics into eminently readable English. The result: as complete a portrait of the Old Grad as has ever been published...
...least half the realities of life. He makes his job easy by playing down characters and incidents that might fill his hero's emptiness with something more amiable than smuggling and murder. He exposes Dyar's hungry soul to every temptation except the temptation to take a brace. In this way, Bowles takes most of the wind out of his own sails. The Devil likes to be given his due, but he is too much of a realist to ask for a walkover...
...April 3, Harcourt, Brace & Co. will publish the first 25,000 copies of They Went To College, TIME'S book about the most influential body of people in the world: the U.S. college graduates...