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This Russian cordiality mightily impressed a few reporters, who breathlessly watched every wrinkle on Russian faces and, like Sweet Alice, "wept with delight when you gave her a smile, and trembled with fear at your frown." Although Ben Bolt Vishinsky was smiling last week there was no evidence whatever of a real change in Soviet policy...
Since 1884, the Roman Catholic Church has formally disapproved cremation. Many Hebrews also frown on it, though Sir Philip Sassoon of the great Jewish banking family had a bomber squadron scatter his ashes. The Church of England sanctioned ash-scattering in 1944, if disposal were on consecrated ground. No Britain of top prominence has yet availed himself of the method. Although the last two Archbishops of Canterbury were cremated, as was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, none asked that his ashes be scattered. (But South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts had his ashes scattered on a hill at his farm...
...York Yankees just how this delicate adjustment of worry and ease is supposed to work. It was the last of five grapefruit-circuit games between the Yankees and the Sox; each team had won two games. In the first inning Williams came up wearing a solemn and purposeful frown; he looked at one pitch from Yankee Pitcher Bob Porterfield, found it not to his liking, and swung on the second. The ball took off and sailed over the right-field fence 340 ft. away. Since the Yankees did not score at all, that was the ball game. But Ted Williams...
...perplexities in distributing the funds, and would almost certainly result in some degree of government control. "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Educators fear that the government could easily impose specifications on what is done with the money it donates, and also that money-doling legislatures might frown on universities whose professors speak out of turn. Diversity is one of the great features of our educational system: a college or university must be free to form its own values, teach what it will, and choose its own economics in restricting its student body and range of activity...
This transition from the Yard to the Houses is a rough one. A Student Council subcommittee trying to smooth it has suggested that freshmen should be allowed to sign into upperclass dining halls on certain nights. But some Housemasters frown upon this proposal; they see milling mobs of Union-stricken freshmen choking the already crowded dining halls...