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...housewife, it seemed a shame that little boys all around were quitting French classes out of boredom. She herself had minored in French at the University of Michigan, practiced it in Paris, and developed a passion for French literature. Not long ago, she reread Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and observed, "Hugo has more adventure than Davy Crockett"-a thought that led readily to the idea of putting Hugo into a comic strip...
Amateur Cartoonist Kincaid's Contes Français now reaches 1,209,000 subscribers to five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
...convinced that "crackpots, rabblerousers, and short-righted politicians" defeated renewal in Cambridge. On the other hand, the residents of Donnelly Field and their five councillors think that "intellectuals" and "capitalistic cityers" were using redevelopment to exploit them again. The fact is that there were no villains--only some mis-handling and misunderstanding...
...call to your attention a mis-statement in the second sentence of the article by Mr. Paisner, "The New Centers and Interdepartmental Amalgamation," in your "Weekly Review" of October 27, 1962? I believe it is quite untrue that opposition from physicists has complicated and delayed negotiations for a new science building; may I cite your own Mr. Beyer, on page 7 of the same issue, who correctly states that we favor it! (Indeed, a detailed study of space and facilities needed by the Physics Department in the proposed Science Center was undertaken last winter and reported to the Administration...
With the publication in last Friday's Boston papers of an advertisement signed by sixteen Massachusetts academicians (including eleven from Harvard) supporting Ted Kennedy, such a situation has become a sad reality. The statement on behalf of Kennedy spends most of its 500 words mis-interpreting the positions of Teddy's Republican opponent, George Lodge, and directing the voter's attention to the youngest Kennedy's potential to rubber-stamp his brother's every wish in Congress. It pleads, in effect: "Re-elect John F. Kennedy United States Senator so he can be more effective President...