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...Heap of Lies. In a Grove takes the form of testimony before a police commissioner. The body of a samurai, presumably murdered, has been found in a forest glade. In turn, a bandit, the samurai's wife, lesser witnesses, and the dead samurai himself (through a medium) tell what they know about it. Up to a point, the stories almost fit. The bandit has stalked the samurai and his wife through the forest, decoyed him with a promise of buried loot, trussed him up and raped his wife before his eyes. But when it comes to the samurai...
Among the heap of letters gracing our desk a few days ago was a plea for journalistic unity. The editors of the Daily Princetonian, anxious over football's current health, are drumming up enthusiasm for the return of spring practice and a requirement that each Ivy League members play five other members every year. Their missive, like those sent to the other six Ivy League newspapers, exhorted us to join with them in this drive. We can hardly go along, though...
...their stomachs-and memories-decide. In 1935, after voting-90%-to rejoin the Reich, the Saarlanders heard Adolf Hitler promise: "In ten years' time, you won't know your city of Saarbrücken." Hitler was right: by 1945 the entire Saar basin was a heap of smoldering ruins...
...Charlotte's Web, The New Yorker's E. B. White retires, as all city intellectuals should, to a roomy barn on a large farm. Here, on a cosy dung heap, he sets Wilbur, a runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider...
...time college coaches. And though Tech does its best to lure good players, Dodd must constantly cope with the hard fact that the tough engineering school has no snap courses like those found in some of the football foundries. How does Dodd consistently stay on top of the collegiate heap? The former All-American quarterback for Tennessee (1930) has a twinkle in his grey eyes when he answers that one: "Don't forget, we get the smarter boys—and that helps." It also helps that Dodd's Sugar Bowl-bound engineers seem to enjoy playing football...