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...Lieutenant,' b Denis Fodor, is a humorous tale. It mixes the tensions og guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Greece with the comedy that is in the pointlessness and incongruity of war. The Government's peasant soldiers are dupes not because they are going to be killed, but because their officers intend to bring them back safely without having fought a battle, and the war turns out to be a great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet skill that...
With the exception of Fodor's work, the Spring issue is unimpressive. None of the Advocate's regular contributors appear, and the complete absence of poetry, the magazine's chief strength last year, is unfortunate. Instead of verse there is an article on the Harvard Theater Workshop by a mysterious character named Wythe Bemmell, who is identified by neither and Advocate not the University directory. The article tells fluently the two-year history of the dramatic group, but it is hard to find a reason for the presence of this free advertisement or to imagine what general interest it could...
Yard: le, Gilmartin; lt, Nozak, Hart; lg, Ingram, Church; c, Harper, Richardson; rg, Ripley, Best; rt, Domini; re, Richards, McMurray, Camick; qb, Woodruff; lhb, Thayer, Shaw, Brown; rhb, Skinner, Parker, Reed; fb, Fodor, Levine, Currier...
...Vienna correspondent, Gedye was a lone wolf. He steered clear of the Cafe Louvre, where such mutually admiring members of the Anglo-American press club as Marcel Fodor. John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson talked away the days over Kaffee mit Schlagobers, and pooled their findings. He drifted around the country, wrote excellent travel and history books on Austria...
...other game, the Gold Coasters played sloppy ball, and only through the fine work of Dan Fodor and the benefit of a couple of breaks did they...