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Admittedly, the arts faculty can not line up against that of a great university. But there are several outstanding scholars at Lehigh: as John Leith, Dean of Students, sardonically says, "we've hung a few ostrich eggs in the hen-house for the girls to look...
Holden is one of those who broke under Chinese Communist brainwashing and signed a germ-warfare confession. Back home, he tries to fly his way back into the heart of the girl (Virginia Leith), the confidence of the Air Force (Brigadier General Lloyd Nolan) and his own self-respect. The picture is sure to be exciting for taxpayers who like to see what they are getting for their money...
Word went round Edinburgh like fire: the ships with exchanged prisoners would discharge in the Firth of Forth next day. Edinburgh lined up six deep along the Leith waterfront. Offshore, in the rare sun of a late October morning, the Empress of Russia and the Drottningholm (the men called her the Trotting Home) began transferring their racked and crippled cargoes to tenders...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...
...make entry in the War worth the cost-that we will make our high-flown pledges meaningless by again torpedoing the peace conference. . . . The best answers to these cynics are the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter . . . and the meeting next month in Washington of Vice President Wallace with Sir Leith-Ross which will give substance to that pledge...