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When the father returns, a crafty slave uses various gimmicks to hide the truth from him. The father is furious when he hears about his son's activities, until he learns that his son's friends will restore the squandered funds.

Author: By Edward J. Ottenhelmer jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

Each year the department assigns a reading project which it later tests in group oral examinations. Of late the assignments have been several books of the Bible and eight plays of Shakespeare during the sophomore year, and source readings in Greek historians and selected Greek tragedies during the junior year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Lit | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

The Greek soldier owns one uniform, and often as not his shoes have holes in them. He eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ANTI-COMMUNIST DEFENSE IN THE BALKANS | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Lightning Strikes Twice (Warner) tells an even unlikelier tale than its title suggests. It all hinges on the fact that a good friend (Mercedes McCambridge) of an accused murderer (Richard Todd) gets a seat on the jury that hears his case.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two of a Kind | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

The Air Force is now using their discovery in a practical way. Flying over the ice on the Arctic Ocean, an airplane first drops a geophone fitted with radio apparatus to report what it hears. Then the airplane drops a small bomb, which explodes above the ice. By measuring the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Volcano & Ice | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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