Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marion plans to use his regular lineup, with minor changes in alternates. In foil, Captain Hubert Hocutt will lead off, with Peter Boyce and Mike Klapper in the two and three slots. Dick Johnson will be in reserve...
...Harvard architecture, however, Dean Sert will be hard put to achieve many constructive ends. He cannot find a more central location for classrooms than the Yard. But to revamp that center would require vacating many classrooms during the period of construction. Dean Sert is called upon to perform a minor miracle. The only encouraging aspect to his job is that it is the first time Harvard has even seen fit to employ a moderately scientific method of development. We hope it is not too late...
Demara so admired young Dr. Cyr that he borrowed Cyr's name and credentials, was commissioned in the Canadian navy as a surgeon. He performed unnumbered minor operations-and once, with Mitty-like sureness, he presided over a complicated operation on a soldier who had been wounded near the heart. The operation was a huge success-and so was "Dr. Cyr." The publicity that followed this achievement flushed out the real Cyr, and Ferdinand was quietly sacked by the navy...
...such an atmosphere two foreign ambassadors arrived in Tokyo to take up their duties. The first was black-mustached Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, Russia's first postwar ambassador to Japan, who was greeted at the airport only by a minor Foreign Office official and a handful of Communists and left-wingers. The second was Douglas MacArthur II. veteran State Department official whose illustrious uncle is well remembered in Japan. Ambassador MacArthur got a full official welcome at the airport, in a demonstration that was swelled by left-wingers with unwelcoming placards: "Give Back Okinawa...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...