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...member of the Nieman Committee, which selects the Fellows each year, terms the theory of it "living as a basis for education." What it amounts to mechanically is that three men--Curator Louis Lyons, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Secretary to the Corporation David W. Bailey '21--filter over 100 applications every year to select about a dozen working newsmen for Fellowships...
...body. He crawled painfully away, huddled near the bottom of the canyon. Two days later his lighter fluid gave out; he could kindle no more fires. He rationed his candy bars, quenched his thirst by scooping holes in a dry creek bed and waiting for water to filter slowly into them...
...found many of Proust's later themes: his view of human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...
...secret of Rouxcolor is a lens which is divided into four parts, each with a filter for a different color (red, yellow, green, blue). The four-in-one lens "decomposes" light, making four different images on the film. (A gadget prevents distortion of the images in relation to each other.) When projected through a similar lens, the four-color images are "recomposed" into one color picture. The color of the projected image on the screen is given, not by the film as in other processes, but by the four-in-one lens through which the black-&-white film is projected...
...Bath, Jr. '50 won the penultimate race in the 155-pound class. The Junior Singles event was run off in a thick fog, and reliable reports of the winner have yet to filter up from the river bank...