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...student board of governors, Faunce House contains a mammoth stuffed Alaskan Brown bear, a fully equipped theatre, and practically all the undergraduate student activities' offices. It sponsors dances almost every week and operates fountain service and a television room...
...year has been a good one so far as local jobs are concerned. Industrial expansion in near-by Trenton has drained the Princeton labor market, and as a result, about ten percent of working students are employed in the town. In most years only five percent have gotten soda-fountain, Western Union, and the other types of jobs available in Princeton...
...book amounts to a rapid march, in seven-league boots, from the 9th Century to the mid-igth. But if the pace is swift, the scenery along the way is superb, for the history skims one of Western man's greatest achievements, the sparkling (and self-reflecting) fountain of his art. And the text is as entertaining as it is quick. A vivid refresher course in the Western heritage, the book is also an invitation to explore that heritage more deeply. To some, it will serve as a gateway, its bibliography...
...China's administrators being incorruptible-Communist papers are always decrying the inroad of corruption in the ranks of Red administrators . . . Tax collectors are constantly stealing grain from the taxes they collect. Judges have stolen the rings, watches, fountain pens and money of the prisoners they have condemned to the gun-the symbol and cause of Red China's efficiency...
...Emblem. Not until the spring of 1949 did the dove achieve bodily form. As the World Peace Congress met in Paris, Communist Poet Louis Aragon went to Pablo Picasso, who likes to say, "I came to the Party as to a fountain." Aragon wanted an emblem, and his eye fell on a lithograph of a dove on the wall. "Ha," said Aragon. The World Peace Congress, after hearing Baritone Paul Robeson assail "the slanders of the American mercenary press," happily adopted Picasso's dove and happily applauded Fadeyev's attack on the makers of the North Atlantic Pact...