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...librarians, is to take up botany or something that you can study in Widener. In Widener, the romance of learning is everywhere. Like the time I'm after Siamese 2185.16.342B.14 (John Foster Dulles, Friend or Foe?). Following directions to the letter, I find myself, after a maze of passages, in front of a little embroidered curtain in a recess between bookshelves. Drawing the curtain aside, I see a little red door, with a peephole in it. I knock, and the peephole peeps. After a moment, the door opens, and a beautiful oriental girl in a short-sleeved clinging white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Library: Half a Decade of Decadence | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

...maxims of contemporary popular psychology, this kind of childhood should lay a maze of neuroses for little Chester, and keep him confused, embittered and forever shying at life's challenges. That it fills him instead with great expectations and the drive to make them come true is a sign of the soundness and not the weakness of Author Gary's insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up from Poverty | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...there would be only one building fully prepared to withstand the raging waters. Below decks in Vanserg Hall, the NROTC has accumulated an historical and practical collection of Naval what-nots. Sextants, compasses, and half hitches stand beside depth charges and three-inch guns. Guiding me through this seaworthy maze was Lieutenant R. H. Curtin, NROTC gunnery instructor...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Good Ship Vanserg | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

Gorilla at Large (20th Century-Fox, 3-D and flattie) escapes from an amusement park, says Producer Leonard Goldstein, "and winds up in a mirror maze . . . So you have about twelve gorillas popping out in 3-D from the mirror. We also hide him in a diving bell, and he submerges, and he gets on a roller coaster . . . That's the only thing 3-D is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloodstream Green | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Frank O. Lunden, H.A.A. Ticket Manager, said seats through section 33, with the exception of band and colonnade sections, are already gone. Lunden did not have official ticket sales figures for the firs day, but said. "Everybody's bursar's card showed up. We aren't out of the maze here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Mob HAA For Free Ohio U., Colgate Tickets | 9/29/1953 | See Source »

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