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...learned his English by sneaking up behind U.S. warships and watching the recreation movies), of golf games in Tanganyika (the course went up the side of Kilimanjaro; he shot a 77 and four Mau Mau), were not the product of an overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington Jr. Now 29, he came to TV via Fordham, the U.S.A.F. and the NBC mailroom. Off camera, he speaks unadulterated American...
...commuters as among residents the College would change the emphasis from "freshman commuters" to "commuting freshmen." No longer would a man be able to spend four years at Harvard wholly in the society of the Boston-oriented, and the problem of the commuter at Harvard might be one step nearer solution. Harold L. Burstyn...
Nothing that Radcliffe figures were higher in both years, Kennedy added that the percentage for this year's Yardlings is nearer the average for the last decade than that of the Class of '61. "The record of the Class of '61 was somewhat disappointing," he explained...
GENERAL ANILINE TRUCE is coming nearer. World Court at The Hague refused to rule on plea by Swiss Interhandel company to return General Aniline to it, on ground U.S. illegally seized Aniline as enemy company in World War II. Court's action will spur negotiated compromise now going...
...been bred within this painter," says Sellers, "a call to the lofty and obscure and an artist's sensitive pride. He had seen from within himself what held the sun and stars and planets in their courses, but could not find his way and purposes among the nearer things. He had to have, somewhere in the world, a place of perfection of his own, though it should be only the little one of laughter, of surprise, only the illusion of fruit upon a table rich with the juices of summer...