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...years ago, and bought his own ranch near Midland, Texas. He began buying thoroughbreds to improve his cow-pony stock, as an afterthought sent some to California to race. When World War II started, he shipped his racers back to Texas, and turned them loose on the range to breed with his cow ponies. Failing in efforts to buy established horses after the war, he decided to try his luck abroad, began buying Irish and British yearlings...
What follows would breed theatrical enchantment if the musical Destry had any of the human appeal of the 1939 Jimmy Stewart-Marlene Dietrich film. The current Destry is expense-account entertainment. The songs are brassy, the girls are all chassis, and the mood is about as prairiefied as a subway rush hour. The electrifying exceptions are Michael Kidd's imaginative dance sequences...
...often the social posture, and skepticism a handy critical tool, the beauty of personal warmth and kindness is frequently forgotten. But there are those who feel that a desire to hoard information like gold can never replace the certainty that learning should be sifted and tempered with humanity to breed wisdom...
...late Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was one of the last of a vanished breed of German writers-romantic in feeling, mystical in outlook, spendthrift in prose (in his 63 years he wrote 60 books, none of them very well known in the U.S.). When Hitler came to power, Wiechert backed one of the dictator's most detested internal enemies, Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, and paid for it with five months in Buchenwald concentration camp followed by years of enforced silence. Tidings, Wiechert's posthumous novel (first published in Germany in 1953) is the fruit of his musings...
...fact is that excellence tends to breed excellence, and for this reason a long string of individual stars have come to Harvard over the years, giving Harvard an often spectacular top five as well as an astonishing number of National Intercollegiate Champions. Until Yale's fine victory this winter, Harvard was the only college ever to win the National Team Championship--ten times--and in the past few years the names Ufford, Heckscher and Sears emphasize Harvard's striking dominance...