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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to critcize the fact that "the ordinary student of history is still too often kept away from the subject because he has inherited too limited a view and thinks that he knows the main lines of scientific history already...
Stanley, though probably unable to win the 200, could take third with a strong showing. Pitted against Frank Modine of Michigan State and Si Hopkins of Michigan (both of whom have done 2:22.7), Stanley's main competition for third should come from Gordon Collett of Oklahoma. In the 100, he will have to beat Navy's Bob Taft, who won the Easterns, plus arch-rival Joe Koletsky of Yale, who lost to Stanley last week at New Haven...
...Word and For Love, affectingly sung by Loren Driscoll and Monte Amundsen, highlight a Marc Blitzstein score that is more thoughtful than tuneful. Stars Douglas and Booth have the skill and charm to appear to be singing and dancing while actually talking and jogging. But Juno cannot solve its main problem: how to do O'Casey short of actually doing O'Casey...
...diesel-electric submarines spend most of their time on the surface, are long and slender with sharp bows and flat decks. Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with tradition so far. The first Nautilus has a vestigial bow and deck, is not as round as she should be for real underwater speed...
...Main Street, U.S.S.R., Levine...