Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas S. Derr '58, of Newton and Weld Hall, was yesterday elected manager of the freshman track team. Derr will thus receive his numerals, and will be eligible for the sophomore managerial competition next winter...
...find--a pitching machine--is the creation of Stephen C. Currier, a Newton engineer who has been working with sporting equipment for the past three years. It works on a compressed air principle and is the only automatic machine of its type...
...Three Came Home" is a forceful and absorbing adaption of Agnes Newton Keith's 1947 best-selling account of her three wartime years with her small son in a North Borneo prison camp. Unfortunately, however, the makers of this film have placed an undue emphasis on the spectacular and more terrifying aspects of Mrs. Keith's imprisonment and, in doing so, have underplayed realism for the sake of melodrama...
...Bureau of University Travel is planning the following study programs under the leadership of university professors: Political Science, Comparative Government, Modern European History, Classical Backgrounds, History of Art, Architecture, Music Appreciation, and Backgrounds of Comparative Education. Inquire 11 Boyd Street, Newton, Mass...
Three Came Home (20th Century-Fox). A month after Pearl Harbor, U.S.-born Author Agnes Newton Keith, wife of a British colonial official, became a prisoner of the Japanese in North Borneo. Out of her three-year ordeal, she wrote a bestselling factual account of how she and her two-year-old son fared in tropical prison camps until liberation reunited them with the husband whom the Japanese had imprisoned near by. As a movie, done with reasonable fidelity to the book, it is often as harrowing, moving-and sometimes as monotonous-as what the war did to the Keiths...