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Engaged. Eric Martin-Smith, 22, Cambridge student, new British amateur golf champion (TIME, June i); and Joan Surtees, great-granddaughter of Robert Smith Surtees, oldtime sporting novelist (Jar-rocks's Jaunts & Jollities, Handley Cross...
...broadcast of his experiences, he declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach...
...reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps until, on the eighth day, Quaranta collapsed, out of his head with fever and suffering. Di Robilant struggled on, was found on the twelfth...
Duke students are not yet distinguishable from their contemporaries at other inland institutions. They paint DUKE on their slickers, have "dates" with the coeds, occasionally buy a fruit jar of corn liquor. They talk hopefully of their teams (their baseball team beat Cornell last month; they are proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life?Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House...
...each fruit-farmer of Merced County. Calif, who asked for it last week, Dooley P. Wheeler, agricultural commissioner, presented a quart jar. The farmers went to their farms, opened the jars and cried, in effect...