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...some Western commentators, among them Walter Lippmann, acted as if Russia was bound, in time, to have its way in West as well as East Germany. The assumption was that once old Konrad Adenauer leaves office, other West Germans would be so keen for reunification that they would barter away their present freedom and prosperity just to be part of a poorer and Communist-dominated Greater Germany. But West Germany's preference for its own way of life is much deeper than one old man's will...
...Yale decided to use amateur coaches, he was assigned to coach the freshman crew. He wangled leave from classes, went to England to learn the long Oxford stroke, came home and introduced it successfully at Yale. When he became varsity coach, he appointed as the new freshman coach another keen oar named Dean Acheson. Bob Cook, Yale's grand old man of rowing, once called Averell "easily the most promising crew coach in America...
LIBERATED FRANCE, by Catherine Gavin (292 pp.; St. Martin's; $5), is a concise, highly readable history (1944-53) in which De Gaulle is often the villain, France herself always the heroine. Able Scottish Historian Gavin, who has a sharp gift of phrase and a keen eye for the human touch, can marshal statistics and evoke a spring mood in Paris with equal grace...
...reader is happy to find a recurrence of Mann's keen scientific analysis--his love for medical description and insight. The scene in which Krull evades military conscription by a self-induced epileptic fit is one of the most genuinely penetrating in the bok. The vividness induced by this scene glows with the reader for the remainder of Krull's fortunes, constantly assuring him that this man can indeed do anything...
Smith College, increasingly aware of keen academic competition from Radcliffe and Wellesley, has decided to allow its students to use the Harvard library...