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As the fifth race in the varsity schedule, the western excursion comes as part of an informal agreement between Wisconsin and seven other casters colleges. This agreement, set up in 1946, provides that one Atlantic coast crew will annually row in Wisconsin waters. M.I.T. west last spring. Harvard goes this...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote...
Over and over again Stevens had to warn Russians that friendship with an American would land them in trouble. On an excursion boat near Leningrad, he met a scholarly looking old man who turned out to be "a real friend, gentle and courtly, interesting and interested." As usual, Stevens had...
High spots in the current volume, however, are Boswell's excursion into France and his interviews with Rousseau and Voltaire. Boswell recorded the conversations dutifully, even when they undoubtedly distressed him:
Excursion (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBCTV) is the Ford Foundation TV-Radio Workshop's half-hour for children (between 8 and 16), but since it does not talk down to children, grownups will probably like it too. Its ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in...