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Last week, still as enthused as Cather ine, the French government opened twelve months of festivities commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Nicot's weed in France. As troubadours sang the glories of smoking to an audience of 800, the organizers of the meeting proudly an nounced the creation of a new chivalrous order of tobacco lovers - "The Compan ions of Jean Nicot," whose members will be entitled to wear a lapel ribbon just like chevaliers of the Legion of Honor...
...distance; haggard crones put knock-out drops in his wine ("they only do it for fun," explains one of his less demented parishioners); and his nine-year-old communion class ignores the catechism to devise methods of tormenting the priest and his faith ("Why must they do this to ine?" is his only response). Why, indeed...
...Spring into Love leaves us its startling residue of thunderous denial, the amalgam of Huck and his raft separated by Thomas Moore's "Lolly Rookh" from the black pristine love found in the shoals of the frozen Charles!" Diana Trilling writes, "...disconcerted by the misconception of the tragic hero (ine?) and...foundering in the slough of my husband's anguish, I found it lovely." Norman Mailer's criticism is more direct: "...in Cambridge it always stinks--like sweat...
...reforms get under way, Spain hopes to get a temporary summer fillip from the tourist trade (about $100 million a year). But for the long haul, Spain looks for U.S. aid to put the country on its feet. Since 1954, stopgap U.S. food shipments at times prevented near fam ine, and $460 million in U.S. aid virtually kept the country solvent. Last week Span ish newspapers were blasting the U.S. for doling out less than the $200 million a year that Spain insists it needs. Actually, Spain will get very close to that amount: about $150 million a year...
...article printed in The Harvard CRIMSON today, March 16, 1954, headlined, "Ivy Cinema Movie Program May Stop," is, as far as the statements attributed to members of Ivy Films Research Ine., manager of the Ivy Cinema, completely without truth...