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...shrunk from 40 pages to eight, from a circulation of 380,000 to 250,000, from a proud independent paper to a sordid Peronista puff sheet. Since the paper's seizure, loyal staffers had turned to such odd jobs as driving trucks, selling wine, refrigerators and auto parts. Fifteen had spent six months to two years in Perón's jails on charges of plotting revolutions. Many second-and third-generation Prensa employees would meet daily on streetcorners or at cafeterias to kindle hope and recall past glories when the paper was a daily encyclopedia of world...
...some time, however, before the evening with Saroyan reaches its high point. The first play, a short sketch called The Beautiful People, is in many ways the least satisfactory of the three. Part of the fault is the author's--the scene is merely an aimless dialogue between a fifteen-year-old boy and an elderly woman who, for some unexplained reason, comes to the boy's house to see his father. The two discuss a wide and wild range of subjects, from mice than can spell to the boy's one-word novel, Tree. Saroyan here probably tried...
Award for the cover story on Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Fifteen months ago. Campbell moved to New Delhi after 17 years in Africa...
Other planned changes include a complete repainting and refinishing of the room. "This is the first time in at least fifteen years that the dining hall has been refinished," Perkins commented...
...holiday is shifted back to the 22nd, it will mean a conflict with the Harvard-Yale football game at Cambridge, Nov. 24. The game is usually played the weekend before Thanksgiving, but a conflict arises about twice in every fifteen years...