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...case in question was hardly likely to involve the public interest. Last February, probing a shortage in its books, a Detroit architectural engineering firm sued a former partner for an accounting, asked Federal District Judge Theodore Levin to suppress the record in order to spare embarrassment to those directly involved. Levin did, holding that the court has the "inherent right" to suppress any case. After the shortage-nearly $1,000,000-was publicly revealed with the arrest of the firm's former head bookkeeper (TIME, Dec. 21), Detroit papers decided to make an issue of the suppression...
Instead of finding the newspapers in contempt, Judge Levin merely issued a statement observing that they were not. The stories published about the suit did not come from court records-as the papers themselves admitted-but from sources over which the court had no control. While holding to the suppression of the record at this time, Levin said that all hearings on the case will be held in open court...
...next few weeks, Gene was happier than he had been in two years. Several of his friends visited him and related news of the outside world. ("Professor Levin read us all of Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse...
Stein has been more concerned with a reorganization of elementary German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method...
...process of osmotic absorption, however, does not prove as effective for a college freshman as for a stu-13HARRY T. LEVIN...