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When Julian Howard's father took his family to the 1,000-acre farm he had bought sight unseen, Julian hoped that their moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a...
Wace and Sharpies were schoolmates in the same English town, and rivals from the day they met. More, they were obsessed by their hatred of each other. But they rarely met. practically never spoke. Their paths parted briefly when Sharpies went up to Oxford and Wace into business. Sharpies turned...
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton indicated in the Herald Tribune Poll that a majority of their students disapproved of Government Old Age Pensions for Needy Persons, where as the score for the rest of the country, in the general grown-up poll, came out 89% in favor of such pensions.
The reason for the disapproval shown by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton students is not hard to find. All three are situated in New England, where grown-up as well showed a larger percentage of common sense. Moreover the three colleges recruit their students mostly from the weal-thier classes, classes...
Ah Wilderness! (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). The growing pains of a young generation, tossing uneasily on its antimacassars somewhere in New England, have been expertly woven into this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about an adolescent taking his first look at the grown-up world of 1906...