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Specific recommendations included in the current Council report call for "definite preference" to Junior and Senior applicants (already adopted); virtual guarantee of admission to all Dean's List Freshmen; stricter adherence to an "intellectual cross-section"; leniency toward men applying in groups; reduction of the number of graduate students...
...bales in loan stocks the Government had lent farmers an average 8.3? a pound. Since cotton was last week selling at about the current loan rate of 8.3?, it was obvious that the loan was pegging the price. It was also clear the farmers could not get their cotton out of hock. Let the Government make them a nominal payment of $1.25 a bale (about ¼? a pound) and take clear title...
...current trend in U. S. cinema is biography. Biographical cinema got off to a good start three years ago when Warner Bros. made The Story of Louis Pasteur, followed it with The Life of Emile Zola. At Twentieth Century-Fox, Darryl Zanuck played up the vogue with such million-dollar footnotes to history as Lloyd's of London, In Old Chicago, Suez, Jesse James and Alexander Graham Bell...
...Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled in an automobile going 60 m.p.h. Current issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review carries a memoir of Thomas Wolfe by Henry T. Volkening, a colleague of his teaching days. Theme of Volkening's recollections -Wolfe's difficulties and anxieties about getting his work published...
Bargain. For rare book buyers, the current Scribner Book Store catalogue announces a first edition of The Communist Manifesto. Price...