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...President Dunster added it to the growing College. It was renamed Goffe College, and turned into a dormitory to supplement the space available in Eaton House and a new building to the rear called the Old College. On the first floor there was a "Great Hall" and a lean-to kitchen; two chambers filled the second floor, and above them were three gabled garrets. For the needier schoolers, there was also an undesirable "lowest chamber," presumably in the basement...
...little aloof from Russia. A Communist China which regards itself as the equal of Russia and which may feel that its interests clash with those of Russia in Asia is a better prospect for the Western world than a China which is made to feel that it must lean on Russia or face the prospect of having enemies on both flanks...
...Communist Koestler writes of his seven lean years in the party with a kind of choked-up reluctance; in a sense, he has already made bigger and better confessions in his fiction. The Invisible Writing is nevertheless a fascinating document in which Koestler reaffirms membership in the company of those who, like Silone. Malraux, Chambers and others, have "seen the future" and are very much afraid that it may work. Koestler confesses to a recurring dream in which he shouts warning of terrible danger to a crowd, but no one will listen. With his faculty for making his nightmares come...
...second half, the Sooners really got hot. Stubby Don Brown (5 ft. 9 in., 183 Ibs.) barreled out of his left-tackle position and recovered a California fumble. From his own 13-yard line, lean Gene Calame took off in the option play. Circling behind the quarterback. Halfback Buddy Leake caught Calame's lateral without hitching his stride, raced a couple of steps and whipped a long forward pass downfield. On the Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes...
...huge red-and-gold concert hall of Paris' Palais de Chaillot last week, the International Cooperative Alliance, central body of the world's cooperative societies, opened its 19th congress. No sooner did the meeting get under way than lean, dark-haired Andrei Timofeev, leader of the 30-member Soviet delegation, jumped to his feet and put in motion a Russian plan aimed at seizing control of the world cooperative organization...