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...have adjusted to the war remarkably well. In the bush, villagers have taken into their families thousands of Ibo fleeing from other regions of Nigeria and from Biafran towns threatened with capture. Wholly new and hidden villages have sprung up near occupied towns. At roadblocks around the country, highschool girls in "Long Live Biafra" T-shirts help militiamen check passing cars. Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Dick Tiger, an Ibo, has toured the interior villages, advising militia officers on how to whip their inexperienced recruits into fighting trim...
...goes, with garter-Sparta, Hades-ladies, loony-Juny (for Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity of a third-rate burlesque skit is Eric (In Search of Theater) Bentley, 40, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and a leading snob-about-the-theater who argues that there must be theaters for the cultured few, so as to save the "intelligent" drama...
...hockey team, called "much better than the one we had last year" by Coach John White, has defeated eight teams without losing once. The wins include two victories over Boston University and one each over Boston College, Northeastern and Brown, as well as three wins over local highschool teams...
...memory of its famed alumnus, Sportswriter Grantland Rice ('01), Vanderbilt University announced that each year it will award a fat scholarship to the highschool student it thinks "the likeliest prospect in America to become a fine sportswriter." Financed by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the U.S., the scholarship will provide up to $1,800 for school expenses plus $500 for summer work in some phase of thoroughbred racing. Though Vanderbilt was not sure just how it would do the picking, it did make one stipulation: like Phi Bete Rice, the Rice of Tomorrow will take not journalism, but straight...
...least as far back as 1916, the "highschool composition" you quoted from the English Record [TIME, Feb. 16] was being circulated as a prize collection of boners...