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Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...
...while, the young school barely managed to stay alive. But soon celebrities from overseas began to come to its rescue. Sir Richard Steele sent complete files of the Tatler and Spectator, and Sir Isaac Newton sent a copy of his Principia. Finally, a plump, periwigged gentleman named Elihu Yale, a retired East India merchant and a former governor in Madras, sent the most substantial gift of all: ?562 worth of goods...
Crimson tennis players Bob Bramhall and Bill Goodman lost their doubles match in the second round of the Middle-sex Bowl Tournament at the Newton Squash Club courts yesterday. The victors, in 6-3, 6-2, were Blair Hawley and Henri Salaun, fourth-seeded doubles team in New England. Tomorrow Bramhall, the only Crimson player left in the tourney, meets Chauncy Depew Steele, manager of the Continental Hotel, in the quarter-finals of the singles...
Tennis Captain Bob Bramhall will meet Crimson freshman Herb Stone in the quarter-final round of the Middlesex Bowl Tourney this afternoon at the Newton Squash Club courts. Unseeded Bramhall gained this round by upsetting sixth-seeded Alex Kauffman on Sunday...
Very much aware of increasing government control over science, Author Synge is duly pessimistic about the place of scientists in the years to come. Says he: "The Archimedes and the Newton of the future will live under a benevolent paternalism. Their motives will be all wrong, socially . . . and unless under these conditions they prove completely barren they will sit on golden perches in golden henhouses fitted with microphones and peepholes in order that those who are responsible . . . for the expenditure of public money may hear and see and report events greatly wished. It is not a pleasant picture...