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White's third children's book, The Trumpet of the Swan, although filled with prose as great as the first two, is slightly disappointing. At first I thought that the fact that I'm 20 insead of eight had something to do with my let-down. But I reread the...
Even going beyond illustrations, there is a bigger let-down: it is a happy book, with a happy ending and few disappointments along the way.
Munro hopes that the team will not suffer a let-down after last week's hustling, fired-up victory. "If we play the way we did against Cornell," remarked Munro looking ahead, "We should have as good a chance as anyone of winning the Ivy League title."
In private conversation you observe Vaughn with the same initial expectation: the exciting, capable and sophisticiated spy. After the first few questions and answers, however, there is an unmistakable let-down. It's not his fault. U.N.C.L.E. appears only once a week. The rest of the time Vaughn is honest...
In the past two years, Harvard has had slumps after exams though it has usualy managed to avoid losses. Coach Cooney Weiland admits the slump is worse this year, but feels it is the product of a rash of bad breaks. The two losses earlier last week, "games which could...