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Today the G.O.P. Convention gets under way, and out of the ensuing maelstrom of conflicting ideas and personalities must emerge a leader and a program. Both must be shrewdly chosen and thereafter carefully cherished, if the party is to meet with success next November...
Besides the extreme decentralization of the American system, the general disreputable manner in which polities are carried on throughout a large part of this country has much to do with the reluctance of the more highly educated classes to enter the maelstrom of machine-ridden government. It is no idle quip when political observes say time and again that American politics is no place for a gentleman...
...campus" and hoping that this ferment will lead to a union of college youth marching on the "path to an ordered, cooperative, profitless society," James Weschler has, with his admirably written study of the "Revolt on The Campus" made an important contribution to our understanding of the present maelstrom of confused tendencies of political thought and action as they whirl about the ivyed walls. Documented with care and thoroughness, organized with skill and clarity the work is also very readable. Mr. Weschler has a clear swift moving style which makes the going smooth and pleasant. However, the worth...
...CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime...
...Crossing Harvard Square should be one of the keenest delights of the clear-eyed Harvard man. Let trembling bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy the thrills of brushing a fleeting fender with our coat tails in this pedestrian's paradise. May all schoolgirlish reference to those terrifying automobiles in Harvard Square be dropped forever from the masculine columns of the CRIMSON. F. M. Rivinus...