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...most striking Crimson deficiency is swimming without Bruce Hunter and diving without Frank Gorman. The latter, the best diver in the East, would undoubtedly take first, but cannot com- pete until second semester. Hunter is also ineligible, but is expected to return next term; could he swim, the Crimson would have great strength in the freestyle sprints...
...Battler v. the Kid. Having no power outside the authority to allot certain star subsidies, Malraux set out to rehabilitate the French theater. At the Comédie Française, he complained, standards had fallen so low that there were only six performances of Racine to 113 of a couple of frothy farces by a 19th century playwright, Eugene Labiche. "Let us have Labiche," said Malraux tolerantly, "but not at the expense of Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched...
...booming voice has reached out over the telephone to Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire and Iowa, to summon the faithful. In response to an urgent call from Hall, Seattle Mortgage Banker Walter Williams, national chairman of Citizens for Eisenhower in the 1952 campaign and longtime Under Secretary of Com merce (1953-58), is expected to go to Washington to join the campaign...
...wanted on a scrap of paper ($447 million), Morgan characteristically glanced at it briefly, snapped: "I accept." At one time Morgan controlled six banks and trust companies, three life insurance companies, ten railroads and a cluster of huge corporations. He and his associates held 341 directorships in 112 com panies with total resources of $22 billion...
...told himself, I can use on the Fulbright and the French Government Grant Application and the Fulbright Travel Grant. For the French Government Grant though I need a study project. Something recondite," he calculated. "The influence of Provence on French symbolist poetry," he decided. "Il pleure dans mon coeur com-me il pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten...