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Cooke bears them so well that to millions of Britons he has become a semiofficial interpreter of the U.S. He has a reporter's eye for the lighter moods & manners of the U.S., a good ear for its idioms and a graceful, often witty, style that does equally well with a New York street scene, the Fourth of July in a small town, or the look of the Kansas prairies. Britons have come to depend on his daily Guardian dispatches and his weekly recorded 15-minute BBC broadcasts ("Letter from America") for their knowledge of U.S. life outside...
Rifle: the lightweight, .30-cal. T25 with a tremendous (750 rounds-a-minute) rate of fire. Two and a half pounds lighter than the standard infantryman's Garand, the T25 uses a 20-round clip, can be fired automatically or singleshot. Its purpose: to replace not only the carbine and rifle, but also the submachine gun and possibly, when it gets a better barrel, the reliable but heavy (19 lbs.) Browning automatic rifle as well...
...door of his son's bedroom and found himself staring at a terrifying tableau. His son, a 15-year-old vocational-school student, was sitting there, one forearm bared, a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Another boy was holding a teaspoon over the flame of a cigarette lighter. Both the syringe and the teaspoon contained heroin...
Concerning "false expectations . . . and much speculation" on the faculty resolution that a theatre be built at Harvard, last Thursday's CRIMSON editorial admitted the necessity "to stir up interest . . . for a theatre . . .", but the editorial presented the darker side of the situation rather than the lighter side...
...whose wanderings from the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. There were wild charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since she left it in 1941 to go to her husband in Nazi-occupied Norway, Walter Winchell and others set up a drumfire heard...