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...days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like a man repairing a puncture. Half the city, said he, more quietly than any football game was ever announced...
...scrimmage George Downing and Jim Devine teamed on the A team, while Henry Vander Eb and Bartow Kelly were stationed on the B flanks. The return of Lovett and Koufman tomorrow will mean that Dick Harlow will have six ends, all im- proving daily, all potentially good, and none with any degree of experience...
With the exception of Professor Burbank's resignation, none of the changes were understood to have been caused by disapproval of the University's method of appointment and dismissal. Succeeding Professor Burbank as Chairman of the Economics department is Professor Chamberlin, who is still in Europe...
...substance, it was in form and in timing a political blunder of the first magnitude. Looking back upon the brief history of President Conant's "concentration-quotas," no member of the University should now feel surprise at the present unhappy outcome of the Committee's devoted labors; and none should despair that President Conant may, in due course, view the appointment problem in a wider perspective than appears to have been the case last year when he felt a need for action
...this second collection O'Hara has written his first Foreword, a modest, touchy acknowledgment of his pleasure in other people's short stories and in his own. Then there are 35 stories in which the reader meets, briefly but none too briefly, about twice that many strictly American heels. Some are heels because they are young and dumb, some because they are trapped and tired. Some are pure heels, like the prep schoolteacher who enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women...