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Once Aboard the Brig. Like Treasure Island, Moonfleet is the story of a half-grown boy, John Trenchard, who gets caught up among desperadoes-smugglers, in this case, on England's Dorsetshire coast. Like Stevenson's Jim Hawkins, young Johnnie first learns the true measure of the lawlessness in his vicinity while lying in concealment-not in a sweet-smelling apple barrel, but in the fust of an old crypt, with a corpse grinning at his elbow...
...forces will not be pushed off Korea, Brig. General W. Barton Lesch, Story Professor of Law, told a packed main lounge in Harkness Commons yesterday afternoon...
...Instead of seeking 'principles' or distinctive tenets, which can only divide a federal union, the party is intended to seek bargains between the regions, the classes, and the other interest groups. It is intended to brig men and women of all beliefs, occupations, sections, racial backgrounds, into a combination for the pursuit of power. The combination is too various to possess firm convictions...
...have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...
...Association of Medical Colleges in their move to obtain federal aid are numerous educators and all the public health authorities. President Conant and President H. M. Wriston of Brown University voiced their approval in telegrams sent to the House subcommittee when hearings began on H. R. 4312 in July. Brig. General James S. Simons, retired, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, testified before the same group that the future of public health services was in serious danger if some aid was not voted soon...