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Potential architects get the official lowdown on job possibilities and requirements tonight at 7:15 o'clock in Leverett Junior Common Room, when the Placement Office winds up this term's series of career conferences...
There were no publisher's cocktail parties last week for Author Capa. He was in Moscow with John Steinbeck, on assignment from the New York Herald Tribune. But in the current '47, his friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them...
Last week Walter Winchell rushed into type with the lowdown on those saucers in the sky (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). They were flying wings, said Walter; he knew all about it, including details of a Montana crash. Wrote Winchell: ". . . in 1943 an American firm . . . pioneering in jet-propulsion planes sent an experimental test ship through the so-called supersonic wall. In other words ... it was traveling in space ahead of itself. . . . The plane was not heard of again for more than three weeks, when it was found crashed somewhere in lower Montana. The pilot was dead...
...face it: they just weren't hep. They were confused and not often amused by the out-of-this-world conversation of American G.I.s and by the latest U.S. movies and books. How could they get with it? Last week, dictionaries offering what was. hopefully called the lowdown on the American language were near-sellouts in both Denmark and Japan...
Coach Dick Harlow will add microphone technique to his list of accomplishments at 10:30 tonight when he goes before an NBC air audience to face the questions of sportscaster Bill Stern. Here to cover the Boston College-Tennessee fracas for NBC, Stern will pry Harlowian slants and gridiron lowdown from the Cambridge ornithologist in the quarter-hour program...