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...dilemma of Jean Jerphanion, keen, ambitious, radical student whose desire to reform the world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose sincerity and effectiveness he can believe. He moves first toward the Socialists, but is repelled by their callow optimism, learns of the existence of a mysterious secret society that may plot to prevent war by killing its key men. He investigates the Masons, arrives at no decision...
...famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...goes, at Columbia, the Glendons, at Cornell, Jim Wray, at California minute Ky Ebright, at Pennsylvania, Rusty Callow, and at Washington, Al Ulbricks all stand-out coaches. The latter three are all Washington men, that institution in crew coaching today as Notre Dane does in football. Other stories might told about each of them. And more color can be found in the lakes and inlets rivers, upon which the crews train, but late in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18 eyes will be on Poughkeepsie, in the seven lanes leading out from the west the Hudson river...
...Tradition decrees that Columbia will be there, but the loser, in a close finish, the worm turns, for in four close finishes, the Morningside Heights boat has second best four times. Navy, under young Buck Walsh, may triumph, since a crew is always considered dangerous in rough water. Can Callow do for Pennsylvania what he used to do at Washington and what the Ouskers have done--turn in a victory...
...Callow younglings will draw naked pictures and write nasty words, but when college "men" sink to the mentally incestuous depths that Lampy sounded in the April issue, it is time for college authorities to step in and assure the public that it is not granting tax favors to an institution where debauchery and degeneracy are condoned...