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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because it has a waiting list of 30 servicemen, the Canteen has a rigid rule: anybody who misses two lessons is dropped. Last week a sailor who had been absent twice and a soldier who had missed three lessons asked for, and got, reinstatement. Their excuse for being away: they had been to Potsdam...
...Regardless of the program which the student may pursue, he will be required to read eight classics during his summer vacation for the first two years. The first book list prepared by the college includes works from the classics of literature, history, biography, science, and social science. The following summer, the student will be required to read from a list prepared by the department of his major. In the summer following his junior year the student can at the discretion of his department, read in his major field towards his departmental examination, or work on his senior essay or project...
Last week. Trader Selznick rode into the master's list with a bang. He announced that he had coupled his talents, audience prestige and star power (Hollywood's second best) with the distribution outlets and capital of Britain's movie king, tall, pious Joseph Arthur Rank. It was a deal that every major Hollywood studio had hoped to turn. Selznick made it during Rank's recent Hollywood visit (TIME...
...Alger was "the most widely read author of the ages"-according to his only biographer, Herbert R. Mayes (TIME, May 7, 1928). (Not one of Alger's novels ever appeared near the top of any bestseller list...
...snapped: "Don't stand here talking." (Horatio stopped talking.) Mistress No. 2 was an English harpy who abducted him from Mistress No. 1, then treated him cruelly. Alger ran away from her. Mistress No. 3 did not appear until 20 years later. When Alger showed her a list of the furniture he intended to buy, she asked, "Why two beds, Horatio...