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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question was: How did the Detroit puzzle-breaking ring get advance solutions? Suspicions naturally focused on the sources, i.e., the distributing syndicates-principally Bell Syndicate, General Features and Superior Features Syndicate -which sell puzzle contests to newspapers. In New York. Andre F. L'Eveque, who runs Superior Features, announced that he had found and plugged a leak and had given full details to the FBI. The other syndicates insisted that the precautions they take against leaks are foolproof. But what happened in Portland presented undeniable evidence that more than a leak at Superior was involved, since another syndicate...
FICTION 1 . Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak ( 1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (3) 3.Lolita, Nabokov (2) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Lady L., Gary (7) 7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. The Watch That Ends the Night MacLennan 10. Tenderloin, Adams...
PRIX FÉMINA. Author Franchise Mallet-Joris deserved a prize, said the critics, but not for her prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with...
...what Council President Edward L. Croman '60 has described as "primarily an educational meeting," anyone in the College community will be allowed to debate the question. Among those who may attend is Robert Kiley, president of NSA. The session begins at 7:15 on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House...
Among those elected to the Committee were Jean L. Anderson '59, of Whitman Hall and Wethersfield, Conn.; Katherine C. Ashley '59, of Briggs Hall and Seattle, Wash.; Emily W. Churchman '59, of Bertram Hall and Lafayette Hill, Pa., and Juanita K. Cohen '59, of Whitman Hall and New York City...