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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
...Completely legendary. After writing his famous poem about Barbara, Poet John Greenleaf Whittier was told that Stonewall Jackson did not even pass the Frietchie house in Frederick, Md. and that if he had, Barbara could not have leaned out the window to speak her impassioned lines ("Shoot, if you must, this old gray head . . .") as she was bedfast at the time. Snapped Whittier: "It seems to be admitted that Barbara Frietchie had a Union flag in her house; if she did not show it on that occasion, so much the worse for Frederick City...
...other incarnations Odets gives him, and Helen McCloskey was impressive as Joe's inspiring wife, Edna. The only other standout in a very competent cast was John Mann, who in the difficult role of Agate Keller was almost perfect, setting a fine pace at the beginning of his famous closing speech and faltering only in his failure to maintain a crescendo of voice until the final cry of "Strike...
...final and most spectacular event of the year is slated for April, when possible resumption of the famous Inferno Race, discontinued during the war, may give the Crimson racers a chance to compete individually over a break-neck four-mile course which drops some 4000 feet from the summit of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch. The Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom Races, scheduled for Tuckerman's Ravine, may not be held unless the plans for the Inferno Race fall through, as the two groups will help manage the race at Pinkham...
Following the Kapstein lecture will come five more forums, starting on Thursday, March 20, and concluding on April 24. These discussions will consider several Forster works, including his most famous, "A Passage to India." Other lectures will be on "A Room With a View," "The Longest Journey," and "Howard's End." The series will be filled out by a talk on "Forster as a Critic" on April 24 by Professor Robert Davis of Smith...