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...Even in the atomic age, war has a way of turning back to its past. Last week's action of the Juneau was reminiscent of the time C. S. Forester's hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, commanding H.M.S. Sutherland, shelled a mule train on a coastal road between Malgret and Aren de Mar during Wellington's Peninsular campaign...
Among the winners of this year's Horatio Alger awards (presented by the American Schools & Colleges Association): Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who started out with a five-room adobe hacienda); Alexander Harris (who rose from a polisher of cigarette-lighters to president of the Ronson Art Metal Works, Inc.); Thomas E. Courtney (from $6-a-week car washer to president of the $14 million Northern Illinois Corp...
...places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean is as unconvincing as a Horatio Alger hero...
...training table, an adequate activities center, a hockey rink, a well equipped auditorium and theatre, the College has decided to build a varsity club for which there has been no immediate need indicated. The College is not acting in a responsible manner toward its students. J. Russell Hunter '50 Horatio Rogers...
Haines' freshman boat--well up to average, he says--is stroked by Pete Bullard. Dick Lincoln rows seven, Bill Wetmore six, Horatio Burns five, Andy Leighton four, Charley Humpstone three, John Lincoln two, and Bill Glenn bow. Morrill Ordesky will...